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ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS

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ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS of (16.44–1670), third daughter of the See also:English See also:king, See also:Charles I., and his See also:queen, Henrietta Maria; was See also:born during the See also:Civil See also:War at See also:Exeter on the 16th of See also:June 1644. A few days after her See also:birth her See also:mother See also:left See also:England, and See also:provision for her See also:maintenance having been made by Charles she lived at Exeter under the care of See also:Lady See also:Dalkeith (afterwards countess of See also:Morton) until the surrender of the See also:city to the parliamentarians, when she was taken to Oatlands in See also:Surrey. Then in See also:July 1646 Lady Dalkeith carried the princess in disguise to See also:France, and she rejoined her mother in See also:Paris, where her girlhood was spent and where she was educated as a See also:Roman See also:Catholic. Henrietta was See also:present at the See also:coronation of See also:Louis XIV., and was mentioned as a possible See also:bride for the king, but she was betrothed, not to Louis, but to his only See also:brother See also:Philip. After. the restoration of her brother Charles II., she returned to England with her mother, but a few months later she was again in Paris, where she was married to Philip, now See also:duke of Orleans, on the 3oth of See also:March 1661. The duchess was very popular at the See also:court of Louis XIV., and was on See also:good terms with the See also:grand monarch himself; she shared in the knowledge of See also:state secrets, but was soon estranged from her See also:husband, and at the best her conduct was very imprudent. In 1670, at the instigation of Louis, she visited- England and obtained the See also:signature of Charles II.'s ministers to the treaty of See also:Dover; her success in this See also:matter greatly delighted Louis, but it did not improve her relations with Philip, who had See also:long refused his consent to his wife's visit to England. Shortly after returning to France, Henrietta died at St See also:Cloud on the 3oth of June 167o. She was buried at St See also:Denis, her funeral oration being pronounced by her friend See also:Bossuet, and it was asserted that she had been poisoned by See also:order of her husband. She left two daughters, See also:Marie See also:Louise, wife of Charles II. of See also:Spain, and See also:Anne Marie, wife of See also:Victor Amadeus II. of See also:Savoy. According to legitimist principles, the descendants of Henrietta, through her daughter Marie of Savoy, are entitled to See also:wear the See also:British See also:crown.

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