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Henrietta Maria, the French wife of Charles I and daughter of Henry IV, Roi de France, was the first of the royal family to honour Tunbridge Wells with their preference. According to Thomas Benge Burr's History of Tunbridge Wells published in 1766 :
"The queen continued about six weeks at the Wells, and dwelt in tents the whole time. Her camp was pitched upon Bishops-down-common, and certainly diffused a splendor and magnificence over this wild country, to which it had hitherto been an absolute stranger; … The curiosity of this gay young queen induced her one day to walk from the Well a little way into the county of Sussex, where she wandered about till, at length growing weary, she sat down on a bank beneath the shade of a spreading birch for refreshment; and, when she had sufficiently rested herself, she arose, and ordered a stone to be placed there, as a memorial of her travels in that county. … The Queen's-stone, an alehouse in the road to Frant, is built where this monument was placed, and the sign which hung there till within these few years, was drawn from a view of the stone itself. It is now the sign of the Blue-bell"
Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, who was sent here by her physicians, for the re-establishment of her health, after the birth of Prince Charles
The queen continued about six weeks at the Wells, and dwelt in tents the whole time. Her camp was pitched upon Bishops-down-common, and certainly diffused a splendor and magnificence over this wild country, to which it had hitherto been an absolute stranger; … The curiosity of this gay young queen induced her one day to walk from the Well a little way into the county of Sussex, where she wandered about till, at length growing weary, she sat down on a bank beneath the shade of a spreading birch for refreshment; and, when she had sufficiently rested herself, she arose, and ordered a stone to be placed there, as a memorial of her travels in that county. … The Queen's-stone, an alehouse in the road to Frant, is built where this monument was placed, and the sign which hung there till within these few years, was drawn from a view of the stone itself. It is now the sign of the Blue-bell
It is stated that in one of her pedestrian excursions in the neighbourhood, Her Majesty [Queen Henrietta Maria] strolled up the Frant Road, and finding herself fatigued, rested upon a bank beneath a birch tree - upon quitting which, with that gaieté de coeur which was natural to her, she gave orders for a stone to be placed on the spot "as a memorial of her travels into Sussex." The gallantry of the courtiers suggested a complimentary latin inscription to be engraven upon it, but no vestige of the stone or inscription now remains, although in the year 1766, a Public House, called "The Blue Bell", formerly "The Queen's Stone" and afterwards "The Black Dog" stood upon the spot where the stone had been originally placed. Since then the house has undergone another change, being now a private residence, called "Mount Nevill." It is about quarter of a mile from the Springs, on the right of the road to Frant.
Charles IV de Bourbon Duc de Vendôme | m: 18th May 1513 | Francoise d'Alençon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Antoine de Bourbon Rey de Navarre | m: 20th Oct 1548 | Jeanne III de Reina de Navarre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2nd marriage | Henry IV de Bourbon Roi de France | m: 27th Dec 1600 Lyon, France | Mary de Medici | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Louis XIII de | Elisabeth Isabel de | Marie Christine de | Nicholas de | Jean-Baptiste Gaston de | Henrietta Maria Stuart | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Charles I Stuart | m: 13th Jun 1625 St Augustines Church, Canterbury, Kent | Henrietta de Bourbon Princesse de France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
b: 19th Nov 1600 Dunfermline Palace, Fife, Scotland d: 30th Jan 1649 Whitehall Palace, Whitehall, London bur: 7th Feb 1649 Henry VIII vault, Windsor, Berkshire | b: 26th Nov 1609 Hotel du Louvre, Paris, France d: 21st Aug 1669 Château de St Colombes, Ile de France, France bur: After 21st Aug 1669 Cathedral of St Denis, Ile de France, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Charles James | Mary Henrietta von | James II | Elizabeth | Anne | Catherine | Henry | Henrietta Anne | b: 13th May 1629 Greenwich Palace, Greenwich, Kent d: 13th May 1629 Greenwich Palace, Greenwich, Kent | b: 4th Nov 1631 St. James Palace, St. James, London d: 24th Dec 1660 Whitehall Palace, Whitehall, London bur: After 24th Dec 1660 Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London | b: 14th Oct 1633 St. James Palace, St. James, London ch: 24th Nov 1633 St. James Palace d: 16th Sep 1701 Château of St Germain-en-Laye, Ile de France, France bur: After 16th Sep 1701 Chapel of St Edmund, Paris, France | b: 29th Dec 1635 St. James Palace, St. James, London d: 8th Sep 1650 Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight bur: After 8th Sep 1650 St Thomas Church, Newport, Isle of Wight | b: 17th Mar 1637 St. James Palace, St. James, London d: 5th Nov 1640 Richmond Palace, Richmond, London bur: After 5th Nov 1640 Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London | b: 29th Jun 1639 Whitehall Palace, Whitehall, London d: 29th Jun 1639 Whitehall Palace, Whitehall, London bur: After 29th Jun 1639 Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London | b: 8th Jul 1640 Oatlands Park, Weybridge, Surrey d: 13th Sep 1660 Whitehall Palace, Whitehall, London bur: After 13th Sep 1660 Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London | b: 16th Jun 1644 Beford House, Exeter, Devon d: 30th Jun 1670 Palace of St Cloud, Ile de France, France bur: After 30th Jun 1670 Cathedral of St Denis, Ile de France, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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