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

1660.] HER PORTRAITS. 147
There is a fine painting of her in the museum at
Amsterdam, by Van der Heist, in full face, a whole-length,
dressed in rich white satin and pearls, holding an orange
in her right hand, with a bunch of leaves. She is under a
purple velvet canopy. Her complexion is that of a clear
brunette, with rich dark eyes and hair, yet the picture is
rather heavy, on the whole.
The Duke of York, having proceeded to Calais, with a
fine squadron of the fleet, to conduct the Queen Henrietta
Maria, and her youngest daughter, the Princess Henrietta
Anne, to Dover, the Princess-royal accompanied King
Charles, to meet them on their arrival, November 1st.
Grief for the loss of Henry Duke of Gloucester, saddened
the royal party, and they all wept passionately, for th e
absence of one so amiable and tenderly beloved.
King Charles presented the Princess-royal with a
beautiful boat, in which she often was rowed on the
Thames. It was lined and cushioned with black velvet,
embroidered with her arms in gold and silver. She some-
times rode on horseback, when her trappings were also of
black velvet, trimmed with silver lace and fringe.
She received from her royal brother and his parliament,
the sum of ten thousand pounds, of her unpaid dowry, and
everything appeared to tend to her happiness, in this
world ; when in the midst of pleasure and festivity, she was
suddenly smitten down with the small-pox.
The Queen, her mother, hastily removed to St. James's
palace from Whitehall, with her lovely young Henrietta,
her privy chamber. William is very handsome and chivalric ; the
Princess rather an ungraceful, unformed girl, but the attitude is ill
chosen. Her majesty also showed me a beautiful miniature of the
Princess, but it wanted individuality of character, and I considered
Honthorst's by far the noblest delineation of all I saw, and decided on
having an engraving from it for the frontispiece of my volume.
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