Author: John Heneage Jesse

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-03

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9781333160586

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts, Vol. 2 of 3: Including the Protectorate Lord Kensington, unwilling to risk the disgrace of a refusal, proceeded cautiously in his delicate mission. As regarded Henrietta herself, she took no pains to disguise her partiality for the Prince: the state of her feelings, however, will be best discovered by the following romantic incident, as related by Lord Kensington in one of his letters to Charles. The Princess, it seems, had conceived a passionate longing to obtain a sight of a miniature of Charles, which Lord Kensington was in the habit of wearing round his neck for though others, writes the ambassador, as the Queen and Princesses, would Open it, and consider it, the which ever brought forth admira tion from them, yet durst not this poor young lady look any otherwise on it than afar off, whose heart was nearer unto it than any of the others who did most gaze upon it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.