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Henrietta Maria

Name: Henrietta Maria
ISBN: 9781639362813

The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation

Leanda de Lisle,

432 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Henrietta Maria

The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation

Leanda de Lisle,

About this book

Dispelling the myths around this legendary queen, this biography of Henrietta Maria, queen consort of King Charles I, retells the dramatic story ofthe English Civil War from the perspective of this dynamic woman. Henrietta Maria is British history's most reviled queen consort. Condemned in her lifetime as the "Popish brat of France, " anadulteress, and a traitor, she remains in popular memory the wife who wore the breeches in her marriage, the woman who turned herhusband Catholic (and so caused the English Civil War), and a cruel and bigoted mother.This clear-eyed biography unpicks the myths and considers the story from Henrietta Maria's point of view. A portrait emerges of a woman whose closest friendsincluded Puritans as well as Catholics, who crossed swords with Cardinal Richelieu, and led the anti-Spanish faction atthe Englishcourt. A witty conversationalist, Henrietta Maria was a patron of the arts and a champion of the female voice, as well as a mediatrix forher persecuted fellow Catholics.During the civil war, the queen's enemies agreed that Charles would never have survived as long as he did without the "SheGeneralissimo." Seeing events through her gaze reveals the truth behind the claims that she caused the war, explains herestrangement from her son Henry, and diminishes the image of the Restoration queen as an irrelevant crone. In fact, HenriettaMaria rose from the ashes of her husband's failures—a "phoenix queen"—presiding over a court judged to have had "more mirth"even than that of the Merry Monarch, Charles II.It is time to look again at this often-criticized queen and determine if she is not, in fact, one of British history's most remarkable women.

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