ISBN: 9781458834409

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. ABOUT A PORTRAIT AT WINDSOR. In Windsor Castle, in the Vandyke Room, there is a portrait which has puzzled a good many visitors. It is an undoubted Vandyke; it shows a pretty face a trifle sensual, perhaps but who the lady may have been whose features it immortalises, nobody seems to be able to Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. ABOUT A PORTRAIT AT WINDSOR. In Windsor Castle, in the Vandyke Room, there is a portrait which has puzzled a good many visitors. It is an undoubted Vandyke; it shows a pretty face a trifle sensual, perhaps but who the lady may have been whose features it immortalises, nobody seems to be able to tell. "Somebody" "Somebody connected with Charles II." "Some French lady" are guesses rather than information offered. "Murray" used to call the lady by her right name. But lately," for some reason or other, she has in his description become transformed into " Madame de St. Croix," which probably sounds " safer." Formerly she figured as " Beatrix de Cusance, Princesse de Cantecroix," which was correct unless the more illustrious title be given her which for a few brief hours she legitimately bore, though never actually crowned, that of "Duchess of Lorraine." Gentleman's Magazine, February, 1893. There is a good deal of history graven in those ' smiling features curious, changeful history of their bearer's own life and history, more important, of nations, on which she exercised a decisive influence. It was thinking of her, not least, that Richelieu penned those truthfully reproachful words: " Les plus grandes et les plus importantes menees qui se fassent en ce royaume sont ordinairement commencees et conduites par des femmes." Without her and Madame de Chev reuse perhaps, it would be too much to say that France might still be without that Lorraine of which she felt it so great a hardship to losea portion in 1871; but certainly the tide of events during the past three centuries would have taken a very different course from that which it actually did different, probably, for the better. Beatrix was " somebody connected with our Charles II." it is quite true. Without that Books, Literary Collections~~General, Odd-Bits-Of-History-Being-Short-Chapters-Intended-To-Fill-Some-Blanks~~Henry-W-Wolff, 999999999, Odd Bits Of History; Being Short Chapters Intended To Fill Some Blanks, Henry William Wolff, 1458834409, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781458834409

Excerpt: ...perhaps all the better pleased at finding that by his new treaty obligations Charles had bound himself to proceed immediately to the battle-fields in France. Whether she had a… Plus…

Excerpt: ...perhaps all the better pleased at finding that by his new treaty obligations Charles had bound himself to proceed immediately to the battle-fields in France. Whether she had a right to be severe upon Charles''s little amatory escapades may appear a trifle doubtful by the light of her own conduct now that he was away. At Ghent she took a leaf out of his own book. The duke soon heard of her being in a close liaison with a Polish magnate, Prince Radzivill, jeune et bien fait, poli et galant. And not long after arrived the further intelligence that one of her most conspicuous and most successful admirers was our own gay monarch, Charles Stuart, subsequently Charles II., who was then a refugee in the Netherlands. There is no reason to believe that these misfeasances were in any way belittled to Charles''s ear, seeing that it was Princess Marguerite, the Duchess of Orleans, his sister, who played the principal tale-bearer, a lady who, like all the Lorrain princesses, had a direct interest in bringing Charles''s connection with Beatrix to a close. Charles took the bait. He was furious with the Princess de Cantecroix. He would repudiate her for good. He would be reconciled Pg 135 on the spot with Nicole. All seemed to herald a happy and creditable ending to the misunderstanding of years, when, all of a sudden, Beatrix announced herself enceinte, and by that announcement upset the whole carefully reared-up house of cards. Nicole had borne the duke no son. Here was the prospect of one. Throwing the Pope''s warning to the winds, forgetting and forgiving all about Beatrix''s wrong-doings, Charles rushed to join her, and was overjoyed to be able to be present at the birth of what was destined to be his only son, Charles, subsequently the gifted and distinguished Prince de Vaud Henry William Wolff, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Odd Bits Of History; Being Short Chapters Intended To Fill Some Blanks Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1458834409

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