Henrietta Maria and the English Civil Wars
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Anti-royalist Propaganda
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Catholic queenship
Charles's Personal Rule
Christ Child
Court Appointments
England's Civil Wars
English Grammar
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gender and power
Hugh Cholmley
Husband's Subjects
James King
Kingdomes Weekly Intelligencer
kings
Kings Cabinet Opened
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Mercurius Aulicus
Mercurius Britanicus
Michelle Anne White
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parliamentary opposition
popular print culture analysis
Queen's Departure
Queen's Influence
royal propaganda
Royalist Newsbooks
seventeenth-century England
Sir Hugh Cholmley
Sir John Hotham
Stuart monarchy
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- ISBN 9780754639428
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The influence exercised by Queen Henrietta Maria over her husband Charles I during the English Civil Wars, has long been a subject of interest. To many of her contemporaries, especially those sympathetic to Parliament, her French origins and Catholic beliefs meant that she was regarded with great suspicion. Later historians picking up on this, have spent much time arguing over her political role and the degree to which she could influence the decisions of her husband. What has not been so thoroughly investigated, however, are issues surrounding the popular perceptions of the Queen that inspired the plethora of pamphlets, newsbooks and broadsides. Although most of these documents are polemical propaganda devices that tell us little about the actual power wielded by Henrietta Maria, they do throw much light on how contemporaries viewed the King and Queen, and their relationship. The picture created by Charles and Henrietta's enemies was one of a royal household in patriarchal disorder. The Queen was characterized as an overly assertive, unduly influential, foreign, Catholic queen consort, whilst Charles was portrayed as a submissive and weak husband. Such an image had wide political ramifications, resulting in accusations that Charles was unfit to rule, and thus helping to justify Parliamentary resistance to the monarch. Because Charles had permitted his Catholic wife to interfere in state matters he stood accused of threatening the patriarchal order upon which all of society rested, and of imperilling the Church of England. In this book Michelle White tackles these dual issues of Henrietta's actual and perceived influence, and how this was portrayed in popular print by those sympathetic and hostile to her cause. In so doing she presents a vivid portrait of a strong willed woman who had a profound influence on the course of English history.
Michelle White is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA.
