To Sell England’s Jewels: Queen Henrietta Maria’s visits to the Continent, 1642 and 1644
In the pursuit of raising much needed finance for the English Royalist cause, Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England, twice visited the European mainland in the 1640s in attempts to sell items of the English Crown Jewels. On both occasions her attempts were beset with problems incl...
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2014-07-01
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| description | In the pursuit of raising much needed finance for the English Royalist cause, Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England, twice visited the European mainland in the 1640s in attempts to sell items of the English Crown Jewels. On both occasions her attempts were beset with problems including a perceived lack of legitimacy of any right she or the king had to sell such items. By association, extremely low offer prices were made by would-be buyers. The English Parliament did its best to track the queen’s activities using both overt and covert approaches. Her visits in 1642 and 1644 met with some success dspite Parliaments best efforts to intervene, but both visits failed to fulfill their aims. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6ccb5c3662ce45998831faa8aa4a7a9d2025-01-09T12:54:30ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182014-07-0111210.4000/erea.3715To Sell England’s Jewels: Queen Henrietta Maria’s visits to the Continent, 1642 and 1644David HUMPHREYIn the pursuit of raising much needed finance for the English Royalist cause, Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England, twice visited the European mainland in the 1640s in attempts to sell items of the English Crown Jewels. On both occasions her attempts were beset with problems including a perceived lack of legitimacy of any right she or the king had to sell such items. By association, extremely low offer prices were made by would-be buyers. The English Parliament did its best to track the queen’s activities using both overt and covert approaches. Her visits in 1642 and 1644 met with some success dspite Parliaments best efforts to intervene, but both visits failed to fulfill their aims.https://journals.openedition.org/erea/3715Wars of the Three KingdomsAnglo-French relationsKing Charles I of EnglandQueen Henrietta Maria of EnglandCrown JewelsEnglish Parliament |
| spellingShingle | David HUMPHREY To Sell England’s Jewels: Queen Henrietta Maria’s visits to the Continent, 1642 and 1644 E-REA Wars of the Three Kingdoms Anglo-French relations King Charles I of England Queen Henrietta Maria of England Crown Jewels English Parliament |
| title | To Sell England’s Jewels: Queen Henrietta Maria’s visits to the Continent, 1642 and 1644 |
| title_full | To Sell England’s Jewels: Queen Henrietta Maria’s visits to the Continent, 1642 and 1644 |
| title_fullStr | To Sell England’s Jewels: Queen Henrietta Maria’s visits to the Continent, 1642 and 1644 |
| title_full_unstemmed | To Sell England’s Jewels: Queen Henrietta Maria’s visits to the Continent, 1642 and 1644 |
| title_short | To Sell England’s Jewels: Queen Henrietta Maria’s visits to the Continent, 1642 and 1644 |
| title_sort | to sell england s jewels queen henrietta maria s visits to the continent 1642 and 1644 |
| topic | Wars of the Three Kingdoms Anglo-French relations King Charles I of England Queen Henrietta Maria of England Crown Jewels English Parliament |
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