The Queen a very little plain old woman, and nothing more in her presence in any respect nor garb than any ordinary woman. The Princess of Orange I had often seen before. The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation ; and her dressing... The Reliquary - Página 1291881Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Agnes Strickland - 1845 - 508 páginas
...got my wife placed behind the queen's chair, and the two princesses came in to dinner. The queen is a very little plain? old woman, and nothing more in her presence or garb than in any ordinary woman." Several portraits are extant of the once lovely daughter of Henry... | |
| 1848 - 524 páginas
...treats with scorn the class from which he has himself emerged. Take a royal portrait : — " The Queen, a very little, plain, old woman, and nothing more in her presence in any respect nor grade than any ordinary woman, 'the Princess of Orange I had often seen before. The Princess Henrietta... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 610 páginas
...in the autumn of the year of the Restoration. Pepys has left a graphic outline of both. " The queen a very little, plain old woman, and nothing more in...any respect, nor garbe, than any ordinary woman. The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation ; and her dressing of herself, with... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1854 - 494 páginas
...where he got my wife placed behind the Queen's chaire, and the two Princesses come to dinner. The Queen a very little, plain old woman, and nothing more in...any respect nor garbe than any ordinary woman. The Princess of Orange I had often seen before. The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my... | |
| Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1854 - 524 páginas
...where he got my wife placed behind the Queen's chaire, and the two Princesses come to dinner. The Queen a very little, plain old woman, and nothing more in her presence in any respect nor gar be than any ordinary woman. The Princess of Orange I had often seen before. The Princess Henrietta... | |
| Mary Anne Everett Green - 1857 - 658 páginas
...where he got my wife placed behind them when the queen and two princesses came to dinner. The queen is a very little plain old woman, and nothing more in her presence, in any respect nor garb, than any ordinary woman. The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation,... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1859 - 398 páginas
...the autumn of the year of the Restoration. Pepys has left a graphic outline of both : — " The Queen a very little plain old woman, and nothing more in...any respect, nor garbe, than any ordinary woman. The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation ; and her dressing of herself, with... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1859 - 398 páginas
...autumn of the year of the Restoration. Pepys has left a graphic outline of both : — •" The Queen a very little plain old woman, and nothing more in...any respect, nor garbe, than any ordinary woman. The Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation ; and her dressing of herself, with... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1862 - 360 páginas
...There was therefore now a female coterie in Charles's court. Henrietta Maria, whom Pepys thought 'a little, plain, old woman, and nothing more in her presence in any respecte nor garbe than any ordinary woman.' The Princess of Orange, and the Princess Henrietta, 'very... | |
| Agnes Strickland, Elizabeth Strickland - 1864 - 700 páginas
...got my wife placed behind the queen's chair, and the two princesses came in to dinner. The queen is a very little plain' old woman, and nothing more in her presence or garb than in any ordinary woman." Several portraits are extant of the once lovely daughter of Henri... | |
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