Lives of the last four princesses of the royal house of Stuart

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signed to her care — Fetes and pageants in honour of Queen
and Princess — Honours paid to both — Letter from Prince of
Wales — Troubles in England — Queen obtains supplies in
Holland — Bids adieu to Princess — Embarks for England —
Encounters terrible storms — Driven back on the Dutch coast —
Prince and Princess of Orange, Prince William, and Princess
Eoyal, meet her at Scheveling — Escort her to the Hague —
Final parting between Queen and Princess — List of rules for
Princess, drawn up by Stadtholder — Re-marriage of the Prince
and Princess at the Hague — They live together — Manly graces
and accomplishments of Prince — Letters to Lady Stanhope —
Her dangerous illness in her consort's absence — His solicitude
for her — She is afflicted at her father's troubles — Escape of her
brother James — He arrives in Holland — Her joy — Ill-health of
the Stadtholder — His jealousy of his son — Amelia of Solms,
his consort, usurps government of the States — Stadtholder's
death — His son succeeds — Arrival of Prince of Wales — News
of murder of Charles I. — Destitution of Charles II. — Assisted
by his sister's consort with mourning for his father — Assassi-
nation of Dorislaus — Charles II. compelled to leave the Hague
— Princess-dowager of Orange jealous of Princess-royal — Pre-
tended nativity of her son, full of calamities, presented to
dowager — Princess-royal rendered unhappy by its evil pre-
dictions—Her brother Charles assisted with money and ships
by Stadtholder for his expedition to Scotland — Princess likely
to become a mother — Stadtholder opposed by republican party,
headed by Cornelius Bicker — He employs his consort to court
the wives of the burgomasters — She charms them, but their
husbands persevere — Try to disband the army — Stadtholder
popular with the army, which refuses to disband — He arrests
adverse deputies and shuts them up in castle of Louvenstein —
His design to seize Amsterdam betrayed and prevented — He
goes to hunt near Arnheim — Taken ill — Returns to the Hague
— Attacked with virulent small-pox — He dies — Agony of
Princess — Her deuil chamber — Premature birth of her son,
William III. — Her popularity revived .... 20
CHAPTER III.
Ill-health of the widowed Princess — Feebleness of her babe — Her
wish to name him Charles opposed by her mother-in-law and
the States-general — Submits to their will — Princess-dowager
and Queen of Bohemia godmothers — Deputies of the States-
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