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

128 MARY, PRINCESS-ROYAL. [1GG0.
This was the root of William IIL's hatred to Louis XIV.
and to France.
In March, 1660, the Princess-royal lost her old and
faithful friend, Monsieur Heenvliet, the husband of her
beloved governess, Lady Stanhope.* He was deeply
regretted by the Princess and all the English at the
Hague, but all griefs were swallowed up in the prospects
of the restoration of the royal family. The Princess now
undertook a journey to Antwerp, where she spent a few
pleasant days : she was accompanied thither by her
brothers York and Gloucester. The fortunes of the royal
house of Stuart were in the ascendant. In April, 1660, the
Princess-royal met her brothers at Breda with the greatest
joy, and sent for her son, the young Prince of Orange, from
Leyden, that he might see and embrace his royal English
uncles, and participate in the general pleasure which then
overflowed all hearts. She wrote to the States-general
on the 4th of May, to announce to them in all due form
that the king her brother had been invited by the
Parliament of Great Britain to return to his dominions.
Congratulations were immediately offered by the respective
deputies of all the States to the Princess-royal, his majesty
King Charles, and also to his brothers the Dukes of York
* After the restoration Charles II. gave Lady Stanhope permission,
by his royal patent, to assume the style and title of Countess of
Chesterfield, which she would have been, if her first husband, Henry,
Lord Stanhope, had lived to succeed his father, the first Earl of
Chesterfield. Her ladyship afterwards took Daniel O'Niel, one of the
most faithful of the king's ministers, for her third husband, and died
in 1667. Her son by Heenvliet, Charles Henry Kirkhoven, was
created Baron Wootton and an English peer, inheriting the wealth and
lands of Lady Stanhope's father, Lord Wootton. He died without
posterity, and his honours were inherited by the younger son of his
half-brother, Philip, Earl of Chesterfield. — 'Letters and Memoirs of
Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield.' ' Collins's Peerage,' vol. vi., article
Chesterfield.