Henrietta Maria of France

Henrietta Maria of France

Henrietta Maria (French: Henriette Marie; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until Charles was executed on 30 January 1649. She was mother of his sons Charles II and James II and VII. Contemporaneously, by a decree of her husband, she was known in England as 'Queen Mary', but she did not like this name and signed her letters "Henriette R" or "Henriette Marie R" (the "R" standing for regina, Latin for "queen").Henrietta Maria's Roman Catholicism made her unpopular in England, and also prohibited her from being crowned in a Church of England service; therefore, she never had a coronation. She immersed herself in national affairs as civil war loomed, and in 1644, following the birth of her youngest daughter, Henrietta, during the height of the First English Civil War, was compelled to seek refuge in France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henrietta Maria of France has received more than 1,870,304 page views. Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Henrietta Maria of France is the 117th most popular companion (up from 120th in 2019), the 569th most popular biography from France (up from 579th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Companion.

Henrietta Maria of France is most famous for being the wife of King Charles I of England.