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MARY OF ORANGE (1631-166o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 826 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARY OF See also:ORANGE (1631-166o)  , eldest daughter of the See also:English See also:king See also:Charles I., was See also:born in See also:London on the 4th of See also:November 1631 . Her See also:father wished her to marry a son of See also:Philip IV., king of See also:Spain, while her See also:cousin, the elector See also:palatine, Charles See also:Louis, was also a suitor for her See also:hand, but both proposals See also:fell through and she became the wife of a Dutch See also:prince, ,See also:William, son of See also:Frederick See also:Henry, prince of See also:Orange . The See also:marriage took See also:place in London on the 2nd of May 1641, but owing to the See also:tender years of the See also:bride it was not consummated for several years . However in 1642 See also:Mary crossed over to See also:Holland with her See also:mother, See also:Queen Henrietta Maria, and in 1644, as the daughter-in-See also:law of the See also:stadtholder, she began to take her place in public See also:life . In 1647 her See also:husband, William II., succeeded his father as stadtholder, but three years later, just after his See also:attempt to See also:capture See also:Amsterdam, he died; a son, afterwards the English king William III., being born to him a few days later (Nov . 14, 165o) . Mary was obliged to See also:share the guardianship of her See also:infant son with his grandmother Amelia, the widow of Frederick Henry, and with Frederick William, elector of See also:Brandenburg; moreover, she was unpopular with the Dutch owing to her sympathies with her kinsfolk, the Stuarts, and at length public See also:opinion having been further angered by the hospitality which she showed to her See also:brothers, Charles II. and See also:James, See also:duke of See also:York, she was forbidden to receive her relatives . From 1654 to 16J7 the princess passed most of her See also:time away from Holland . In 1657 she was appointed See also:regent on behalf of her son for the principality of Orange, but the difficulties of her position led her to implore the assistance of Louis XIV., and the See also:French king answered by seizing Orange himself . The position both of Mary and of her son in Holland was greatly bettered through the restoration of Charles II. in See also:Great See also:Britain . In See also:September 166o Mary journeyed to See also:England .

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