1625. Henrietta Maria, youngest daughter to Henry IV. of France, landed
at Dover, and was married to Charles I., at Canterbury, on the same day;
her portraits represent her to have been beautiful. She was certainly a
woman of ability, but faithless to her unfortunate consort, after whose
death on the scaffold she lived in France, and privately married her
favourite, the lord Jermyn, a descendant of whom, with that name, is (in
1825,) a grocer in Chiswell-street, and a member of the society of
friends. Henrietta Maria, though a Bourbon, was so little regarded in
the court of the Bourbons, and reduced to so great extremity, that she
was without fuel for her fire-place during the depth of winter, in the
palace assigned to her by the French monarch.
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