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

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— Introduction to La Grande Mademoiselle — Visit to her at
Chilly — Widow costume of Holland — The black pommette
worn by Princess-royal — Her letter to Heenvliet — Is over-
whelmed with visits — Wants money — Is at the grand ball
given by the Cardinal — Lottery of jewels, all prizes— Her
letter to King Charles — The festivities of French court — Dis-
cussions on precedency by Mademoiselle de Montpensier —
Princess-royal writes to Heenvliet to send carved tortoise-shell
combs from Amsterdam for the Queen-regent — This letter, like
many ©f hers, found its way to Cromwell, instead of the person
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CHAPTER VI.
Great popularity of Princess-royal in Paris — Proposals of marriage
addressed to her — She cannot forget her lost consort — The feud
between her and Princess-dowager of Orange healed by the
good offices of Charles II. — Kind letter of the Dowager to him
— Princess-royal induces Charles to allow the Duke of
Gloucester an annuity out of her yearly benefaction — Her
kind letter to Gloucester, telling him of his allowance and the
clothes she has provided for him — She is a general peacemaker
— Prolongs her stay in Paris till the autumn — Cardinal
Mazarin entreats her to remain longer — Her son ill of the
measles — She sets off in great alarm — Receives tidings of his
convalescence on her journey — Meets her brother Charles at
Bruges — Brings him twenty thousand pistoles, which she had
borrowed on her own credit, for his assistance — He lavishes it
profligately — Princess returns to the Hague — Angry corre-
spondence between her and Charles about Henry Jermyn —
Letter from young Lord Chesterfield, Lady Stanhope's son —
Princess-royal removes to Nieuport, to be near her brothers —
Her letter to Gloucester from thence — Recalled to Breda — Stands
sponsor, with her brother Charles and her son, for Lady Hyde's
infant son — Huff taken by French ambassador — Princess-
royal troubled about her son's torn gloves — His intimacy with
Princess Elizabeth Charlotte of the Rhine — Her rudeness to
Princess-royal — Princess's letter to Lady Balcarras — Her
brother Charles driven from place to place — Angry with
Princess-royal — Downing, Cromwell's ambassador, watches
them — Charles's stolen interviews with Princess — Killigrew's
treachery — Charles goes to Brussels — News of Cromwell's
death— Duke of York comes to the Hague — Nocturnal inter-