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- ANASTASIA VENETIA STANLEY, LADY DIGBY
- THE COUNTESS OF DESMOND
- ELIZABETH CROMWELL AND HER DAUGHTERS
- MRS. LUCY HUTCHINSON
- FRANCES STUART, DUCHESS OF RICHMOND
- DOROTHY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF SUNDERLAND
- ELIZABETH PERCY, DUCHESS OF SOMERSET
- LADY RACHEL RUSSELL
- MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE.
- ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA
- MRS. KATHERINE PHILIPS
- JANE LANE
- ANNE KILLIGREW
- FRANCES JENNINGS, DUCHESS OF TYRCONNEL
- MARY BEALE
- ANNE CLARGES, DUCHESS OF ALBEMARLE
- LADY MARY TUDOR
- ANNE HYDE, DUCHESS OF YORK
- ANNE SCOTT, DUCHESS OF MONMOUTH
- STELLA AND VANESSA
- SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE
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ANNE HYDE, DUCHESS OF YORK
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ANASTASIA VENETIA STANLEY, LADY DIGBY
- THE COUNTESS OF DESMOND
- ELIZABETH CROMWELL AND HER DAUGHTERS
- MRS. LUCY HUTCHINSON
- FRANCES STUART, DUCHESS OF RICHMOND
- DOROTHY SIDNEY, COUNTESS OF SUNDERLAND
- ELIZABETH PERCY, DUCHESS OF SOMERSET
- LADY RACHEL RUSSELL
- MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE.
- ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA
- MRS. KATHERINE PHILIPS
- JANE LANE
- ANNE KILLIGREW
- FRANCES JENNINGS, DUCHESS OF TYRCONNEL
- MARY BEALE
- ANNE CLARGES, DUCHESS OF ALBEMARLE
- LADY MARY TUDOR
- ANNE HYDE, DUCHESS OF YORK
- ANNE SCOTT, DUCHESS OF MONMOUTH
- STELLA AND VANESSA
- SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE
- Plate section
Summary
The mother of Queen Mary and Queen Anne was herself a subject, the daughter of the celebrated Lord Clarendon, and was born in 1638. She was maid of honour to the Princess of Orange during the exile of the family of Charles I., and was in Paris with her royal mistress when the Duke of York first met and loved her. An engagement between them was solemnly entered into at Breda, 24th November, 1659, but it was not for some time afterwards that James proclaimed her as his wife.
The entrance of Anne Hyde into the family of the Princess of Orange took place in the year 1655, in consequence of the sudden death of Mrs. Killigrew, one of the maids of honour to the princess. Lord Clarendon was at that time living with his wife and four children at Breda, in a house which the Princess Royal had assigned him; and was, in the first instance, very much averse from the honour proposed; but, at the instance of the King and his sister, he eventually accepted the offer with much thankfulness and humility. The Queen-mother, who always hated Clarendon, was much opposed to the appointment.
Of the marriage, Pepys says:—
“February 23d, 1660-1.
“Mr. Hartlett told me how my Lord Chancellor had lately got the Duke of York and duchesse, and her woman, my Lord of Ossory, and a doctor, to make oath before most of the judges of the kingdom concerning all the circumstances of their marriage.
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- Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen , pp. 315 - 326Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1844