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Charles I of England wanted his eldest daughter, Mary Henrietta
Stuart, to marry William II, Prince of Orange. The dynastic marriage was
aimed at strengthening the alliance between England and the
Netherlands. The ceremony was held on 2 May 1641 but the marriage could
not be consummated since Mary Henrietta was nine and William was
fourteen years old. (Their child, who would be the English king as
William III, was only born nine years later.) In the wedding portrait,
the princess has a wedding ring on her left hand, and wears on her dress
the large diamond brooch she received as a wedding gift from her
husband. In the exhibition, we can see the parents and the husband of
the princess in engraved portraits.
Children of rulers were regularly portrayed in European courts. Among
the portraits of children displayed in the exhibition, there are
several who were somehow connected to Princess Mary Henrietta. Balthasar
Charles, Prince of Asturias, two years senior to Mary Henrietta, was
one of the princess’ possible husbands-to-be. He was also her cousin,
just like the children of “The Winter King”, Frederick V of the
Palatinate. (Read more.)
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