“Her face is not so exactly as to be called a beauty, though her eyes are excellent good, and nothing in her face that in the least degree can disgust one. On the contrary, she hath as much agreeableness in her looks as I ever saw, and if I have any skill in physiognomy, which I think I have, she must be as good a woman as ever was born. You will wonder to see how well we are acquainted already; in a word, I think myself very happy, for I am confident our two humours will agree very well together.”
Catherine was born Catarina Henriqueta on November 25th 1638 in Portugal. When she became queen, she wasn't a popular queen, not only for her being Catholic, but because she none of her pregnancies came to term. Which means she never gave the King and the people an heir. However, she was well thought of because she brought tea to England and made England into a tea-drinking country.
Even though she never gave the King any childern, he always held her in high respects. Many people pushed the idea of divorce in his direction, but he always refused.
Catherine would die December 31, 1705 and was buried at the Jeronimos Monastery in Belem, Lisbon.
I hope you enjoyed that little tid bit about Queen Catherine of England. ^.^
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<3Carole Rae of Michigan :D
3 comments:
I love Catherine, no matter what Charles sure loved her. Jean Plaidy hinted in her "Loves of Charles II" that she was infertile because of the deforming martingales worn by the Portuguese. I still want to read her whole story. Great post, I am going to start doing more of these again too. I got some good post ideas up my sleeves.
I do believe that Charles really did love her, in his own way. If he didn't he would've divorced at the first mention of it. Plus, he always picked her over his mistresses. I also read that about the martingales. I also believe that it could've been the blood type thing. I can't remember how it excatly goes, but when a women has negative blood and the baby has the father's positive blood type, the woman's body will repel the baby. I learned that in my science class. Thats a main theory I have about a lot of couples back in the day why so many women had miscarriages for no reasons.
Oooh, I hope you do start having more of those! I love reading random things. ^.^
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