Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson & Ann Ford (later Mrs. Philip Thicknesse)

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Anthony van Dyck - Queen Henrietta Maria with Sir Jeffrey Hudson Thomas Gainsborough - Ann Ford (later Mrs. Philip Thicknesse) Queen Henrietta Maria Henrietta Maria of France (French: Henriette Marie; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the wife of Charles I. She was mother of his two immediate successors, Charles II and James II and VII. Contemporaneously, by a decree of her husband, she was known in England as Queen Mary, but did not like this name and signed her letters "Henriette R".