Is Queen Henrietta Maria’s rotten reputation deserved?
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Did She Come From a Society Where Women Could Have a Voice?
Her father, and indeede her mother, a, introduced and then confirmed the edict of nont under which protestants were given full religious rites in france. And so she also came from a society where you could be a catholic and practise your faith - very different from england. She saw her marriage very much in this tradition of an alliance with ta protestant power aimed against the catholic hapsburgs.
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