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It was time to dive into history again. This time with a book about Charles 1’s daughters: Mary, Elizabeth and Henrietta Anne. The book is called: The Tragic Daughters of Charles I. The Title says it all, a lot of tragedy in the lives of these ladies. It is not a big book, it contains ten chapters, each chapter has its own time frame and topic.

In the book we get to know more about King Charles I and his wife Queen Henrietta Maria and the problems they are facing in that time of period. In the later chapters, we get to know more about their daughters Mary, Elizabeth, and Henrietta Anne and the misery life they lived. The most famous of these daughters to us is Mary.

Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange-Nassau, was the eldest daughter of King Charles I and his wife Henrietta Maria. Maria Henriëtte was the wife of Stadtholder William II of Orange. Mary Stuart was born in St. James’s Palace, London. Charles I gave her the title of princess royal in 1642, establishing the tradition that the eldest daughter of the British monarch would bear this title. Her father’s wish was to have her marry a son of Philip IV of Spain, this intention failed and she became engaged to William, the son and heir of Frederik Hendrik, the prince of Orange and stadtholder in the United Provinces ( The Netherlands), and to Amalia van Solms. The wedding took place on May 2, 1641 in the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Whitehall in London, but was not consummated for several years due to the bride’s young age. In 1642 Maria made the crossing to Holland. In March 1647 her husband William II succeeded his father as stadtholder. Maria Henriëtte had a miscarriage in the autumn of 1647. On November 6, 1650, William died unexpectedly of smallpox. The couple’s only child, William (later William III of Orange, the stadtholder-king), was born eight days later. In September 1660 she returned to England. She died of smallpox two months later at the age of 29 at the Palace of Whitehall and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

The other daughters are less known to us, which made reading this book very interesting. Elizabeth was very young when her father was executed and Elizabeth was put under parliamentary scrutiny. Just held as a prisoner. It was her wish to go to her sister in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, she passed away at a very young age and her wish remained unfulfilled.

Henrietta Anne was the youngest daughter of the English King Charles I and his wife Queen Henrietta Maria of France. In 1661 Henriëtta married Philip I, Duke of Orléans. Philip was the youngest son of King Louis XIII and the only brother of Louis XIV, king at the time. The two were married in the Royal Chapel in Paris on March 31, 1661. The marriage was a complete failure, and Henrietta’s husband preferred beautiful men to battle Henrietta for power. She openly cheated on her husband with the king, and got involved in political matters. She died suddenly in 1670 in unclear circumstances, so that poisoning was suspected. Later this suspicion was denied and it was considered an acute peritonitis as a result of appendicitis.

They are real tragedies, 3 ladies, 3 x died young and all the misery that came in between. Despite the fact that the book is short, the author knows how to give a lot of information about the lives of these ladies. This is partly due to the letters from Mary, Elizabeth and Henrietta inside the book. Not the not the easiest part to read, but very interesting. The book has a very well research. The author gives these unknown ladies a face. A really good thing, because their story must and can be told. A very interesting piece of history.