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

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Presents from East India House — They attend principal church
at Amsterdam — Fine seat prepared there for Princess and her
son — Received at Haarlem with state reception, and at Ley den
also — Regiment of hoys meet the Prince, and salute him as their
general — He is much pleased, and treats them with wine,
fruit, and gingerbread — Princess's letters to her brother, King
Charles — He invites her to England — Queen Henrietta Maria
desires her to come through France — Correspondence on that
subject — Queen at last consents to her sailing from Holland —
She is attended to the sea shore by the deputies of the States —
Her tender parting from her son — Embarks for England — Her
dangerous voyage — Ship strikes six times on the Kentish
rock — She lands at Margate, goes on to Gravesend — Met by
King Charles and Duke of York — She is much grieved at the
death of Gloucester — Charles and James convey her in the
royal yacht to Whitehall — Royally received in the Thames,
but in tears for Gloucester's death — Offended by York's
marriage to Anne Hyde — Description of the portraits of
Princess-royal — Arrival of the Queen, her mother, and
youngest sister — She is presented by King Charles with a
beautiful boat — Parliament pay the first instalment of her
dower — She is attacked with small-pox — Her mother, fearing
the infection for her sister, abandons Whitehall and shuts
herself up with Henrietta at St. James's palace — Princess-royal
prepares for death — Repents her unkindness to the Duchess of
York, acknowledges the untruth of Berkeley's statement —
Makes her will — Turus faint after it is signed — Physician and
surgeons bleed her in the foot — Its fatal effect — She dies at
four o'clock on Christmas Eve — Much lamented in England —
Funeral honours in Holland and the States — Her funeral in
Westminster Abbey — Duke of York follows as chief mourner —
She is laid in the royal Stuart vault, next her brother Henry,
Duke of Gloucester — Remains without a monument — Her son,
William III., raises no memorial either to his mother or to his
wife, Mary II., Queen of England . . . ... 125