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











