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

90 MARY, PKINCESS-ROYAL. [1656.
things in which you command your servants that are at a
distance from you, that you will please to have them made
acquainted with it, lest they run into the same incon-
venience as Monsieur Heenvliet and his wife, did the
day before your letter to her highness came ; for they
insisted much on the disappointment it would bring to
your present hopes."
In consequence, the Princess came to high words with
these old and faithful friends, which O'Niel feared would
end in their leaving her, for she was in a very irritable
frame of mind ; but it softened down, and ended in her
giving permission for Heenvliet to have his wife, Lady
Stanhope, remain with him, he being in ill-health, and
that their daughter, Mrs. Howard, lately appointed gover-
ness to the young Prince, should go to Paris with her
royal highness, instead of Lady Stanhope, who was really
too ill to undertake the long dismal journey in the depth
of winter, he says, but if her husband went, she would,
under any circumstances, go with him to take care of him.
He had promised to stay and watch over the Princess's
interests and those of her son, at the next meeting of the
States.
" This agreement," continues O'Niel, " has put her into
a better humour than she has been in since her return
from Cologne. The last post brought her a letter from the
Queen, and another from Lord Jenny n to Monsieur Heen-
vliet, both hastening her journey, and little answering your
majesty's expectation. The Queen says, ' she doubts the
Duke of York will not be permitted to stay her coming, and
that if an English ambassador came she must leave Paris
too. Therefore she urges the Princess to make haste.*' "
"When the Princess-royal left the Hague, in the middle
of January, the faithful Heenvliet would not permit her to
* Thurloe's ' State Papers,' vol. i. p. 683.