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Why was Henrietta Maria, Charles I’s beautiful wife, so reviled?

Being French, Catholic and a woman made her the perfect scapegoat for royal misrule in Parliamentarian eyes, says Leanda de Lisle

One of many portraits of Henrietta Maria by Anthony van Dyck. [Alamy]
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