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

132 MAKY, PRINCESS-ROYAL. [16G0.
Bohemia, dined in public every day, at a table arranged
like two sides of a triangle. King Charles II. sat at the
end where the two sides met ; at his left hand sat the
Princess-royal, with her son, the young Prince of Orange,
by her side ; the Queen of Bohemia at his right hand,
by whom sat the Dukes of York and Gloucester. After
dinner Charles always gave the healths of the States-
general, and afterwards drank to all separately. A band
of music always played during dinner. The King and his
brothers, on the 18th of May, attended a review of the
troops of the States, and the Princess-royal, permitted her
son to be present at a grand entertainment, given by
the Spanish ambassador.* On the Sunday, after divine
service was concluded, King Charles II. was requested
to touch a great number of persons for the evil, some of
whom had come from distant parts of Germany. After
which he dined in private, with his sister the Princess-royal,
and his aunt the Queen of Bohemia. In the evening they
all attended a magnificent entertainment, given to them
by the States-general, in the palace of Prince Maurice ; of
which King Charles said, " he had visited several courts of
Europe, and been present at many magnificent entertain-
ments, but this banquet surpassed anything of the kind he
had ever before beheld."!
The States, vied with each other, in their costly gifts to
the lately scorned and slighted monarch. Holland pre-
sented him with all the crown jewels which they held in
pawn, also the splendid bed given to the Princess-
royal, in expectation of the birth of the Prince of Orange,
which, heartbroken as she was, by the unexpected death
of her fondly-loved consort, she had never had put up.
The mynheers purchased it of her, for twenty thousand
livres, and presented it to King Charles, with the addition
* De Thou's despatches. f ' Theat. European.'