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Henrietta Maria even gave a requiem mass in her private chapel for Father Richard Blount, S.J. upon his death in 1638. She also continued to act in Masque plays throughout the 1630s, which met with criticism from the more Puritan wing of English society. [ 63 ]
Henrietta of England (Henrietta Anne Stuart; 16 June 1644 O.S. [26 June 1644 N.S.] – 30 June 1670) was the youngest child of King Charles I of England and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France. She was Duchess of Orléans through her marriage to Philippe I, Duke of Orléans .
Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson (1633) by Anthony van Dyck. Jeffrey Hudson (1619 – c. 1682) was a court dwarf of the English queen Henrietta Maria of France. He was famous as the "Queen's dwarf" and "Lord Minimus" and was considered one of the "wonders of the age" because of his extreme but well-proportioned smallness.
Elizabeth Stuart (28 December 1635 – 8 September 1650) was the second daughter of Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France. From age six until her death at age 14, Elizabeth was a prisoner of the English Parliament during the English Civil War.
Anne Kirke was appointed a dresser to Henrietta Maria in April 1637, [1] Sophia Carew had been a rival for the position. [5] She is known to have been painted twice by Anthony van Dyck, once standing by herself [1] and once seated with a fellow lady-in-waiting, variously suggested to be Anne Dalkeith [6] or Charlotte, Lady Strange, Later ...
St Albans witnessed the death of Henrietta Maria in France in August 1669 and was an executor of her will. That same year he hosted Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany at his London townhouse. In 1672 he was appointed Lord Chamberlain, the most senior officer in the king's household, and was made a Knight of the Garter.
First Lady of the Bedchamber to Henrietta Maria of France Susan Feilding, Countess of Denbigh ( née Villiers ; 1583–1652) was an English courtier . She was First Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Henrietta Maria from 1626 until her death in 1652.
The younger de Vantelets were also in the employ of the Queen, and later the Dowager Queen, Henrietta Maria. [13] Henrietta Maria Coignet, Madame de Vantelet, was in Henrietta Maria's employ until the Dowager Queen's death in 1669, after which she and her husband, Sieur de Vantelet, received 1,000l. "as a debt acknowledged to be due to her by a ...