Minette
Birthplace: Bedford House, England
Family: Father: Charles I of England
Mother: Henrietta Maria of France
Biography:
Enriqueta Ana Estuardo familiarly known as Minette, was born in Bedford House, England on June 16, 1644. This woman has become a very important woman in history, being an English princess. The youngest of nine siblings has become a Duchess of Orleans in those days when England was divided by the Civil War.
This woman has been raised by Lady Villiers, being abandoned by her mother who has had to leave, and returns two years later after her father Charles I was beheaded in 1649.
Later, in 1661, Henrietta Anne married her cousin Philip, Duke of Orleans, in the Chapel of the Palais Royal, and although their union has been unhappy, after a while her husband’s homosexual gestures have come to light. But despite rumors, both of Felipe’s homosexuality and Enriqueta’s deceptions, the couple has had several children: María Luisa born in 1662, Felipe Carlos, Ana María and numerous abortions of the woman. This woman has become known through the correspondence that has been maintained with her brother, King Charles II, to whom she was very close, and to support him, she travels to England with the aim of negotiating the signing of the secret Treaty of Dover .
He finally died shortly after his return to France, at the Saint-Cloud Palace, near Paris, on June 30, 1670, at the age of 25 and just two weeks after the treaty was signed. It is believed that she has died after having drunk a glass of water, they made it suspected that she had been poisoned by her husband’s jealous favorite, the Knight of Lorraine.