Princess Mary Princess Royal and Princess of Orange |
Princess Mary (born Stuart)<br>Gender: Female<br>Birth: Nov 4 1631 - St James's Palace, London, England<br>Residence: Today the complex of buildings in The Hague is home to both houses of the Dutch government but in Mary's time it was the home of the Stadholder, described by a visitor at the time as a "shabby place". - Binnenhof, The Hague, Dutch Republic<br>Death: Dec 24 1660 - Whitehall Palace, London, England<br>Burial: Dec 29 1660 - Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England<br>Parents: Prince Charles I Stuart King of England, Scotland and Ireland, Henrietta Maria Stuart Queen of England and Scotland (born of France,)<br>Husband: Prince of Orange William II<br>Son: William III, King of Great Britain, Orange-Nassau<br>Siblings: Prince Charles James Stuart Prince of Wales, King Charles Stuart II, James Stuart II, King of England, King of Scotland, Princess Elizabeth Stuart of EnglandAnne Stuart Princes of England, Princess Catherine Stuart, Henry Stuart Duke of Gloucester, Henrietta Anne Bourbon ,Duchess of Orlèans (born Stuart), Catharine Johnston (born Stuart)<br> Additional information:
LifeSketch: Mary Henrietta was the eldest daughter and third out of nine children born to Charles I and his French Queen Henrietta Maria, the daughter of King Henry IV of France and Marie de Medici. Charles designated his daughter Princess Royal in 1642, thereby establishing the tradition that the eldest daughter of the Sovereign would bear this title. The idea came into being when his wife wanted to imitate the way the eldest daughter of the French king was styled Madame Royale.r father wanted Mary to marry a son of King Philip IV of Spain or her first cousin, Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine but both proposals fell through and she was betrothed to William, the Protestant son and heir of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of the United Provinces. It was a political alliance but, nonetheless, Mary was said to be most unimpressed when she heard the news. As a Princess of the House of Stuart she had set her sights higher than a undistinguished princeling from an undistinguished province in the Low Countries.at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall Palace, when the bride was just nine years old and the groom fifteen but their marriage was reputedly not consummated for several years due to the princess' youth. A year later, Mary moved to the Dutch Republic accompanied by her mother, Queen Henrietta Maria. But once her mother left, Mary became terribly homesick, something that never went away, nor would her time in Orange end up particularly pleasant. She didn’t get along with her mother-in-law, Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, who had considerable influence with her son, and William was constantly unfaithful, souring relations with his wife. In 1646 Mary suffered a miscarriage late in her pregnancy, which took a significant physical and emotional toll on her. The following year William succeeded his father as Prince of Orange, but neither Mary’s marriage nor her happiness in her adopted home improved.liam died of smallpox. The couple's only child, William (later the English King William III) was born a few days later on Mary's 19th birthday. Mary, now the Dowager Princess of Orange and her mother-in-law fought over the custody of Mary’s newborn son, as well as over the regency of the Princedom of Orange and her mother-in-law's influence saw the baby christened William, and not Charles as Mary had desired. She would be more successful in maintaining guardianship of the infant, however, by producing a codicil to her late husband’s will which empowered her custody of any minor children when he died. She was unpopular with the "Hollanders" because her sympathies lay with her own family, the Stuarts and it wasn't until The Restoration that the position changed, given she (and her son) was in line to the British throne. The devoted brother and sister then went onto Aachen, Cologne and Dusseldorf, ventured daringly into the Spanish Netherlands but then went back to Cologne. Between January 1656 and February 1657 she lived with her mother in France, after which she returned to The Hague.I, Mary could at long last return home. She did just that in the December, planning to spend the Christmas holiday reunited with her mother and siblings in their childhood residences, however soon after landing she fell ill and was quickly diagnosed with smallpox. Defying the risk of infection, particularly significant given his new role and responsibility, Charles remained by her side until the end. Mary died on Christmas Eve at the Palace of Whitehall. She was only 29 years old.
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