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On This Day In Royal History . 25th November 1609 . 👑 Henrietta Maria of France was born. . ◾ Henrietta Maria of France was queen consort of England, Scotland, & Ireland as the wife of King Charles I. . ◾ She was mother of his two immediate successors, Charles II & James II. She was the fourth daughter of King Henry IV of France & his second wife Marie de’ Medici. . ◾ She was born at the Palais du Louvre on 25 November 1609. As daughter of the Bourbon king of France, she was a Fille de France and a member of the House of Bourbon. . ◾ She was the youngest sister of the future King Louis XIII of France. Her father was assassinated on 14 May 1610, in Paris, before she was a year old. . ◾ Henrietta Maria & Charles I of England were married on 13 June 1625, during a brief period in which England’s pro-Spanish policy was replaced by a pro-French policy. . ◾ Her Catholic religion made her unpopular in England, & also prohibited her from being crowned in an Anglican service; therefore she never had a coronation. She began to immerse herself in national affairs as civil war loomed on the horizon, & was compelled to seek refuge in France in 1644, following the birth of her youngest daughter, Henrietta, during the height of the First English Civil War. . ◾ The execution of King Charles in 1649 left her impoverished. She settled in Paris, & then returned to England after the Restoration of her eldest son, Charles (CharlesII), to the throne. . ◾ In 1665, she moved back to Paris, where she died four years later on 10 September 1669. . ◾ The North American Province of Maryland was named in her honour, and the name was carried over into the current US state of Maryland. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #TheYear1609 #HenriettaMariaofFrance #HenrietteMarie #HouseofBourbon #Royalty #Monarchy #HouseofStuart #CharlesI #QueenConsort #France #England #RoyalHistory #Instahistory #instaroyals #thecrown #thequeen #thequeen👑 #Onthisday #HistoricEngland #frenchroyalty #frenchmonarchy #Englishmonarchy #History #RoyaltyinArt #Art #otd #BritishMonarchy #D25Nov 📷 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020 (at Palais du Louvre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIBSobHjAwJ/?igshid=1l2tz21ew95ln

Happy Australia Day to our Australian followers 🇦🇺 . . This set of posts feature photos from the 2014 Royal Tour of Australia made by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with Prince George. These photos were taken during the family trip to Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia. 🇦🇺 . . . #AustraliaDay #RoyalTour #Australia 📷 @zimbio #instaroyals #princewilliam #Dukeofcambridge #CatherineDuchessofCambridge #DuchessofCambridge #katemiddleton #Duchesskate #PrinceGeorge #britishroyalty #britishmonarchy #monarchy #britishroyals #royalstyle #houseofwindsor #Taronga #DukeandDuchess #thequeen #Kensingtonpalace #kensingtonroyal #britishroyalfamily #royalfamily #royals #tarongazoo (at Taronga Zoo Sydney) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7yu2R6A9Rw/?igshid=f7q84jmf90ue

On This Day In Royal History . 20 November 1737 . Queen Caroline died . . 👑 Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b.1 March 1683), commonly known as Caroline of Ansbach, was Queen of Great Britain as the wife of King George II. . ◼ In the final years of her life, Caroline was troubled by gout in her feet, but more seriously she had suffered an umbilical hernia at the birth of her final child in 1724. . ◼ On 9 November 1737, she felt an intense pain &, after struggling through a formal reception, took to her bed. Her womb had ruptured. Over the next few days she was bled, purged, & operated on, without anaesthetic, but there was no improvement in her condition. . ◼ She asked her husband to remarry after her death, which he rejected saying he would take only mistresses; she replied “Ah, mon Dieu, cela n'empêche pas” (“My God, that doesn’t prevent it”). On 17 November, her strangulated bowel burst. . 👑 She died on 20 November 1737 at St. James’s Palace. . ◼ She was buried in Westminster Abbey on 17 December. George Frideric Handel composed an anthem for the occasion, The Ways of Zion Do Mourn / Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline. The King arranged for a pair of matching coffins with removable sides, so that when he followed her to the grave (23 years later), they could lie together again. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1737 #QueenCaroline #QueenConsort #otd #OnThisDay #CarolineofAnsbach #HouseofHanover #History #RoyaltyinArt #BritishMonarchy #D20Nov #thequeen #Royalhistory #instaroyals #thequeen #stjamespalace #Heritage #Buckinghampalace #onthisday #Westminsterabbey #Greatbritain #Artwork #Portrait #historic #Thecrown #crownjewels #Royalty #Monarchy (at St James’s Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHzt8uMDUYc/?igshid=ayfhjm4x2qli

Some facts about Queen Victoria; . . ◼ Victoria’s father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of the reigning King of the United Kingdom, George III. Until 1817, Edward’s niece, Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only legitimate grandchild of George III. Her death in 1817 precipitated a succession crisis that brought pressure on the Duke of Kent & his unmarried brothers to marry and have children. . ◼ In 1818 he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widowed German princess with two children Carl (1804–1856) and Feodora (1807–1872) by her first marriage to the Prince of Leiningen. Her brother Leopold was Princess Charlotte’s widower. . ◼ The Duke and Duchess of Kent’s only child, Victoria was born at 4.15 a.m. on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace in London. . . 👑 On This Day In History, 22nd January 1901; Queen Victoria died aged 81 . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1901 #D22Jan #EmpressofIndia #QueenVictoria #royalhistory #Royalfamily #Victorian #Dukeandduchess #Instaroyals #instahistory #Heritage #History #ukhistory #onthisday #portraitpainting  #HerMajesty #Osborbehouse #Kensingtonpalace #Buckinghampalace #HouseofHanover #VictorianEra #BritishMonarchy #PrinceEdward #dukeofKentandStrathearn #PrincessVictoria . 📷 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020 (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oL08Ag_pP/?igshid=1e2lpdtzmiy30

Happy Australia Day to our Australian followers 🇦🇺 . . This set of posts feature photos from the 2014 Royal Tour of Australia made by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with Prince George. These photos were taken during the family trip to Taronga Zoo, Sydney, Australia. 🇦🇺 . . . #AustraliaDay #RoyalTour #Australia 📷 @zimbio #instaroyals #princewilliam #Dukeofcambridge #CatherineDuchessofCambridge #DuchessofCambridge #katemiddleton #Duchesskate #PrinceGeorge #britishroyalty #britishmonarchy #monarchy #britishroyals #royalstyle #houseofwindsor #Taronga #DukeandDuchess #thequeen #Kensingtonpalace #kensingtonroyal #britishroyalfamily #royalfamily #royals #tarongazoo (at Taronga Zoo Sydney) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7yutnWgO6k/?igshid=o73a63l3vdwm

Back in 2012 🇬🇧 . The Queen hosted a reception for Team GB medalists at Buckingham Palace, 2012, also in attendance were the Princess Royal and Duchess of Cambridge. . . . #instaroyals #britishroyalty #britishmonarchy #Rainha #hermajestythequeen #thequeen #monarchy #godsavethequeen #hermajesty #britishroyals #queenelizabeth #queenelizabethii #royalstyle #crownroyal #thecrown #Princessanne #princessroyal #katemiddleton #DuchessofCambridge #Duchesskate #elizabethii #houseofwindsor #britishroyalfamily #queenelizabeth2 #royalfamily #royals #buckinghampalace #windsorcastle #Teamgb 📷 @zimbio (at Buckingham Palace) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7wwQOtgn1v/?igshid=4e6hai36wzj7

Happy Australia Day to our Australian followers 🇦🇺 . . This set of posts feature photos from the 2011 Royal Tour of Australia made by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. These photos were taken during the Queen & Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to Brisbane on 24 October 2011 . . . #AustraliaDay #RoyalTour #Australia 📷 @zimbio #instaroyals #britishroyalty #britishmonarchy #Rainha #hermajestythequeen #thequeen #monarchy #godsavethequeen #hermajesty #britishroyals #queenelizabeth #queenelizabethii #royalstyle #crownroyal #thecrown #elizabethii #houseofwindsor #britishroyalfamily #queenelizabeth2 #royalfamily #royals #buckinghampalace #Regina #Princephilip #Dukeofedinburgh (at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ynLZoANlx/?igshid=a00t4yvwvn3b

The Queen and members of the Royal Family pictured during their visit to the Chelsea Flower Show in 2011. . . . #instaroyals #britishroyalty #britishmonarchy #Rainha #hermajestythequeen #thequeen #monarchy #godsavethequeen #hermajesty #britishroyals #queenelizabeth #queenelizabethii #royalstyle #Duchessofcornwall #thecrown #PrincessBeatrice #PrinceMichael #PrincessMichael #Princeedward #CountessofWessex #elizabethii #houseofwindsor #britishroyalfamily #queenelizabeth2 #royalfamily #royals #buckinghampalace #windsorcastle #Regina (at Royal Hospital Chelsea) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7wvM-eAkF1/?igshid=1ofgrfaeuyh36