The Life of Queen Henrietta Maria, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Life of Queen Henrietta Maria, Vol. 1 An attempt is made in the present volume to give an account of the life of Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, the general history of the time being dealt with only so far as is necessary for that purpose. It is somewhat singular, taking into account the important part she has been charged with playing in the English "troubles" of the seventeenth century, that so little has been written with direct reference to the wife of Charles I. Since the life published at the time of the Restoration - "so sillily writ" that Pepys and his wife could do nothing but laugh at it - there have been no more than a few brief memoirs, in French and English, of which Carlo Cotolendi's is the fullest, followed in the last century by the biography included in Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England, and the French life by the Comte de Baillon, mainly based upon the last. On the other hand, materials for a biography are unusually ample. Mrs. Everett-Green expended infinite labour on deciphering, translating, and editing those of Henrietta's letters to Charles I. which have been preserved, whilst these and others have been printed by M. de Baillon in the original French. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.