Henrietta Maria

British  

/ ˌhɛnrɪˈɛtə məˈriːə /

noun

1. 1609–69, queen of England (1625–49), the wife of Charles I; daughter of Henry IV of France. Her Roman Catholicism contributed to the unpopularity of the crown in the period leading to the Civil War

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Example Sentences

Instead it is the latest round in a 40-year debate about the origins of the Tondo, which art collector George Lester Winward bought in 1981 from an aristocratic family with connections to Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of England’s King Charles I. Before his death, Winward set up a trust to preserve his art collection and make the pieces available for study.

From Scientific American

This rather unnatural association, which was deeply resented by the English people, came about partly because Charles II of England was a cousin of Louis XIV—Charles I had married Henrietta Maria, the sister of Louis XIII.

From Literature

They set out to “convert pork into porcelain,” in the rather gauche words of one early museum trustee — and “Making the Met” has heaps of their finest donations, from an exquisite 14th-century mosque lamp, which Morgan gave in 1917, to a burnished 1636 van Dyck portrait of the pregnant Queen Henrietta Maria of England, which Jayne Wrightsman bequeathed to the Met upon her death last year.

From New York Times

He added that the bequest includes 22 European paintings “of the absolute finest quality, namely Van Dyck’s portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria and Delacroix’s ‘Rebecca and the Wounded Ivanhoe.’”

From New York Times

Dating from about 1500, this panel painting of Christ as “Savior of the World,” was identified in a 2011 exhibition at the National Gallery in London as the long-lost original of a Leonardo owned in the 17th century by Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of King Charles I of England.

From New York Times