On This Day In History . 13 September 1660 . Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester died . 👑 Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester (b.8 July 1640) was the youngest son of Charles I and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France, the third son to survive to adulthood (his eldest brother, Charles, Duke of Cornwall and of Rothesay was born and died the same day). He is also known as Henry of Oatland. He was the fourth Duke of Gloucester. . ◾ Shortly after he was created Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Cambridge by king Charles II, he died suddenly of smallpox, much to his brother's distress. . ◾ Decades later, during the exclusion crisis, Henry was looked back on as a kind of 'lost leader'; as what might have been a legitimate, warlike, Protestant alternative to the equally unpalatable choices of the Dukes of York (later James II) & Monmouth (James Scott). . ◾ He was buried in the south side of the Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey, on 21 September 1660. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1660 #HenryDukeofGloucester #DukeofGloucester #Heritage #Royal #Royals #England #English #EnglishHistory #EarlofCambridge #Art #Portrait #RoyalArt #HenryStuart #HouseofStuart #Stuarts #EnglishMonarchy #Royalty #History #BritishMonarchy #D13Sep #RoyalHistory #Westminsterabbey #instahistory (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2XcCbNgK-m/?igshid=ujzs2ob79mzr
