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Suzanne-Henriette of Lorraine: Duchess of Mantua Without Mantua
At eighteen she married a duke of fifty-two. The marriage made her a sovereign duchess. Within four years she was a widow, and the duchy was gone from her husband's hands.
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Henrietta Maria in Exeter and the Battle of Marston Moor, 2 July 1644
She was still in bed when the north fell. Her daughter was barely two weeks old and she had not seen her husband for seventy-five days. She had no idea she would never see him again.
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Gilles de Rais: The Mother Who Trusted Him with Her Son
Gilles de Rais was coming out of his lodging when a mother commended her ten-year-old son to his care. He did not answer her. His servant had already promised her that the boy's schooling would continue. Two years later, she was telling an investigator how her son had disappeared.
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Louise-Élisabeth of France: A Royal Marriage, and a Country Still to Find
She was twelve when she left her twin sister to join her husband in Spain. Her father was king of France. He had arranged a royal marriage. A country for the couple would take rather longer.
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Anne Hyde: A Wife Whose Marriage Was Still Being Questioned
Anne gave birth to her first child. Twelve days earlier, her husband had told her father he never wanted to see her again. She was his wife. That was still being treated as a question.
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Marie de Bourbon: An Heiress at Six Days Old
Marie de Bourbon's daughter inherited her fortune at six days old. People would tell her how fortunate she was. She would grow up to give a different account.
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Marie-Félice Orsini: Widowed by the Executioner, Sent to Moulins
Her husband was dead. She was taken to Moulins under arrest. Even the meeting she hoped for on the journey was forbidden.
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Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont, Princess of Monaco: Died 4 June 1678
The death of Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont on June 4 1678 brought a quiet end to a life defined by open defiance of her marriage and high-profile romantic liaisons at the French court. She was the daughter of Antoine de Gramont, a Marshal of France, and a grandniece of Cardinal Richelieu. In 1660, she married Louis Grimaldi, the Duke of Valentinois and heir to the throne of Monaco, in an alliance designed to strengthen ties between the French nobility and the sovereign Grimaldi family. When her husband ascended the throne as Prince Louis I in 1662, she became the Princess consort of Monaco.