catherinedemedici: MY DEAR HEART | an instrumental mix for Charles I & Henrietta Maria &ldqu
catherinedemedici:MY DEAR HEART | an instrumental mix for Charles I & Henrietta Maria“The love between them was ‘the admiration of all Europe’.”Tracks 1-5:1628 – Charles’ favourite, Buckingham, is assassinated, bringing the royal couple close and the start their deep and enduring love affair. These were their years of bliss. Tracks 6-10:1642 – As events escalate towards war, Henrietta has to leave for The Hague. Their parting is full of desperate longing for each other.Tracks 11-13:1643 – Henrietta is able to return to England for a short time but in 1644 she is forced to leave – this time for France. It was the last time they ever saw each other. Tracks 14-16:1649 – “Charles asked Elizabeth [his daughter] to deliver his last message to Henrietta: ‘that his thoughts had never strayed from her, and that his love should be the same to the last’.” Charles is tried and executed. As for Henrietta, “she would wear ‘perpetual mourning both on her person and in her heart’.” “Twenty years on, her love for her husband ‘always occupied her mind’.”[listen] -- source link
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