Henrietta Anne of England, Duchess of Orléans (16 June Old Style 26 June New Style 1644 – 30 June 1670), in French Henriette d'Angleterre, known familiarly as Minette, was the youngest daughter of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France. The Jacobite claims to the throne following the death of Henry Benedict Stuart descend from her.
After her marriage to Monsieur, Philippe d'Orléans, brother of king Louis XIV, she became known as ...
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Henrietta Anne of England, Duchess of Orléans (16 June Old Style 26 June New Style 1644 – 30 June 1670), in French Henriette d'Angleterre, known familiarly as Minette, was the youngest daughter of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France. The Jacobite claims to the throne following the death of Henry Benedict Stuart descend from her.
After her marriage to Monsieur, Philippe d'Orléans, brother of king Louis XIV, she became known as Madame at court.
Henrietta was born at Bedford House, Exeter, at a time when the English Civil War was raging across the land. Two weeks after Henrietta's birth, her mother, the Queen, fled the country leaving her in the care of Lady Morton. Henrietta Anne (the "Anne" was added after she was baptized into the Catholic Church) was not reunited with her mother until she was two years old. After her father, Charles I of England, was beheaded in 1649, and a republic was proclaimed in England, Lady Morton brought her to France to live at the court...
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