
Is Queen Henrietta Maria’s rotten reputation deserved?
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Henrietta Maria's Unfaithfulness
There's no truth in it at all. It just shows how ingrained our prejudices are against her, and how ridiculous they are. So she arrives in england aged 15. Soy, she is a child. Charles the first is a man of 25,. he is already extremely attached to his father's theories of divine right kingship. Henriette mary manages to mitigate this persecution in the 16 thirties. But he goes on giving heavy fines for not going to church of england services. And indeed, the fines are heavier in the 16Thirties even than they were in the 16 twenties. When he dies, when he is on the scaffold, what does he do?
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