Henriette of England

Henriette of England (June 16th 1644, Exeter, England - June 30th 1670, castle of Saint-Cloud, France), also called Henriette-Anne Stuart , in English Henrietta Anne off England , girl of the king Charles Ier of England and Scotland and of the queen Henriette de France and grand-daughter of Henri IV.

Biography

Henriette-Anne is born with Exeter in England the June 16th 1644, with most extremely of the civil war opposing her father to Cromwell. His/her mother, whose this childbirth temporarily stopped the escape out of England, is concerned little with it and gains France right after the birth, it leaving with the guard of her controlling, Lady Dalkeith, countess of Morton.

Within sight of the political context of the time, his/her father orders prudently that the princess is quickly baptized according to the rite Anglican. A few months later, after the defeat of Naseby, Charles Ier send his oldest son, the Prince de Galles, to join his/her mother in France. Lady Morton is transferred from force with Henriette close to London, but refuses to deliver the child to the Parlement. Fearing for the life of the princess, she escapes during the summer 1646 to join the English refugees at the court of Louis XIV, disguised as a country-woman and making pass the child for her son. She is accommodated rather coldly by the Henriette queen, then congédiée rather quickly. The princess was high in Catholicism with the convent of Chaillot by the Sisters of the Visitation. Henriette was very dependant with her older brother Charles II (which succeeded officially Charles Ier, decapitated in 1649). The princess grows in the memory of her father. She is surrounded by many regards by her aunt, Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV, and regent of France.

March 31st, 1661 she marries her cousin Philippe Ier, duke of Orleans (Mister), brother of Louis XIV. They had several children:

Marie Louise of Orleans (° March 27th 1662 † February 12th 1689), which becomes queen of Espagnes and the Indies by marrying Charles II of Habsbourg.
Philippe Charles of Orleans, duke of Valois (° July 16th 1664 † December 8th 1666)
Anne Marie of Orleans (° August 27th 1669 † August 26th 1728) which marries the April 10th 1684 Victor-Amédée II of Savoy and becomes thus queen of Sardinia. She inherited by her mother seniority the British royal succession (succession jacobite), that she transmitted to her descent in the Maison of Savoy. Their daughter Marie-Adelaide of Savoy married Louis of Burgundy (grandson of Louis XIV) and was the mother of Louis XV.

Their household is unhappy. Dear Sir, whose inclinations for the men rather than for the women were known, achieves his marital duty however, but jealous the influence of his wife at the court. Henriette is indeed very close to her brother-in-law Louis XIV, which appreciates its beauty, its culture and its taste of the luxury. And if she manages to obtain various favors and headquarters for her Favori S, she never obtains anything for her husband, who holds a sharp rigor of it to him. Louis XIV, taking account of the lessons of the History, takes care at the time so that his/her brother does not gain any capacity suitable to threaten the royalty.

The Court suspected a time Madam and the King to be lovers. To make part with the scandalmongers, Madam then suggests the idea calling upon a folding screen, an innocent young girl that the King would court: the choice is made on Louise of Vallière. But Louis XIV of éprend so much although it moves away from his sister-in-law. Madam remains all the same the queen of the balls of the Court. She suffers from the hostility of her husband, her mother-in-law (Anne of Austria) and of the queen Marie-Therese.

In 1670, it contributes to the Traité of Dover, which seals the bringing together between Charles II (restored in 1660) and Louis XIV.

Two week after its return of London Madam is seized by violent pains at the side after having drunk chicorey glass. Its anguish will last several hours. She dies in 26 years, the June 30th 1670, with two hours and half of the morning approximately, with the castle of Saint-Cloud, perhaps of a Péritonite, but one suspects the favorites of her husband of having poisoned it. However this suspicion should be isolated, because the autopsy, required by Louis XIV would not have revealed anything of tel. It remains however maintained by the memories the princess Palatine.
Jacques Bénigne Bossuet composes for Henriette-Anne a funeral oration.
Mister remarie in 1672 with the Palatine Princess, Charlotte-Elisabeth of Bavaria (1652-1722), small-cousin of Henriette of England on the English side.

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