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unusual facts about Henrietta Gordon


Henrietta Gordon

The marquise, however, pleading poverty as an excuse, took no step to have the child brought to Paris, as Blakhal desired she should be; and so he applied to Anne of Austria, and obtained from her a letter, under the joint sign-manual of herself and the king, praying the Marquis of Huntly, who had assumed the guardianship of Henrietta (with the intention of having her educated in the Protestant faith), to permit Blakhal to escort her to France.



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