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

74 MAKY, PEINCESS-KOYAL. [1654.
with a young daughter, and he remarried with a
daughter of the Elector of Hesse Darmstadt, who
became a Eoman Catholic. She had no great beauty,
understood not the French language, nor had sufficient
animation to contribute to the entertainment, of which she
was rather a spectator than a partaker.
The feast was very splendid, both for the table, at which
the Duke and Duchess, with the King and Princess sat, and
that prepared for the lords and ladies. The meals, ac-
cording to the custom of Germany, were very long, with
several sorts of music, both of instruments and voices,
which if not excellent was new.
There was wine in abundance, but no man pressed to
■drink if he called not for it, the Duke, himself being an
enemy to all excesses. A friendship was here formed
between Charles and the Duke, during the two days of
their sojourn at Dusseldorf, which always lasted. They
parted with mutual expressions of good will.
Presents were given at Dusseldorf by the order of the
Princess-royal to the duke's servants, amounting to five
hundred and forty-one rix dollars*
The Princess and her brother, after another day's journey,
arrived at Zanten, a handsome town belonging to the
Duchy of Cleves, which was assigned to the Elector of
Brandenburgh. They stayed there one night, and the
next morning, after an unwilling farewell, the Princess
prosecuted her journey to Holland, and her brother
returned to Cologne. The exiled king had not a coach,
and positively refused to avail himself of his sister's kind
offer to leave him one of hers, contenting himself with
using exercise on horseback, and spent his time in studying
the French and Italian languages. Indeed, this period
appears to have been the most blameless part of his life.
* Clarendon Papers.