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

1660.] ARRIVAL OF THE DEPUTIES FROM ENGLAND. 131
uncles, entered the Hague, in triumph, at eleven in the
morning.
King Charles and his attendants, were at this time in
great distress for clothes, as well as money, the best of
their clothes not being worth forty shillings, at the time
the deputation arrived. He was so overjoyed at the
seasonable presentation of the money, which had been sent
to supply him, in his present need, that he called his
brother the Duke of York, and his sister, the Princess-royal,
to look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau, before it was
taken out.
Samuel Pepys gives a lively account of the joy with
which Lord Manchester and all the English deputation
from the Parliament, arrived at the Hague, to invite the
return of Charles II. back to England, to take possession
of the realm, from which he had been so long banished.
Pepys went on shore, to see the Queen of Bohemia and
the little Prince of Orange. " But the Prince was gone
out with his governor, he came home about ten o'clock at
night, and they had an easy admission. His attendance
was inconsiderable for a prince, yet handsome, his tutor a
tine man, and himself a very pretty boy."
Two days later, Pepys had the happiness to be introduced
into the King's presence, with a little boy of whom he was
taking care. " The king kissed the child very affection-
ately. Then," pursues Pepys, " we kissed his, and the
Duke of York's, and the Princess-royal's hands. After
that," continues he, "I and the rest went to see the
Queen of Bohemia, who used us very respectfully : her hand
we kissed. She seems a very debonair but a plain lady.
" We went to see a house of the Princess-dowager's, in a
park about a mile from the Hague, where there is one of
the most beautiful rooms for pictures in the whole world."
The Princess-royal, her brothers, and the Queen of
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