Henrietta Maria, queen consort of King Charles I

MF published, with her own name, Fames Roule, an extraordinary work providing anagrams and acrostics on the names of all the leading people in England, beginning with the king and queen , set into...

The Author's Preface to Réflexions begins disarmingly with the writer following her rambling thoughts, but shifts to a muted challenge when she declares herself offended to see Men so blind to their own interest, as...

CO published her historical biography Henrietta Maria: it opens dramatically, its first chapter relating the murder of the baby Henriette-Marie's father, Henri IV , by François Ravaillac .

In the last decade of her life, JP published another twelve historical novels under this name: a thirteenth appeared in the year of her death, 1993. Some of these novels revisit ground or people covered...

As Lady Asburnham, the future ER frequented the Court. In 1627 she was spending some time with Queen Henrietta Maria , who had arrived in England two years before this. She was said to have...

About the time she published her first novel, ER also composed a three-act play entitled Richelieu in Love.

They found plenty to criticise as well as to admire in France. On the track of three Stuart consorts, Henrietta Maria , Catherine of Braganza , and Mary of Modena , they visited Paris and...

ES had no reluctance, however, about accompanying Agnes on research trips. The two sisters set out on 3 April 1844, by way of Le Havre and Rouen to visit places around Paris associated with Henrietta Maria

Her parents apparently sent the adolescent Alice for social education in the household of Katherine Villiers, duchess of Buckingham , who was only seventeen when she married in June 1620. The duchess (whom, with her...

She had already sought the patronage of Henrietta Maria , and on the whole she was remarkably little harrassed by government agents for Catholicism. While in London, she once again founded schools.

RW returns here to a period close to that of her first historical novel (published more than fifty years earlier) and to the actual Greenhalgh family. But whereas the earlier book began some years before...