Di Marga Code: Yo vine a Le Havre como si hubiese partido a Groenlandia, hastiada de lo conocido: Hombres, poetas, intelectuales, críticos... desesperada ante mis semejantes, extenuada del infierno en mi isla. Solo el frío me consuela en este exilio, pues quema y no apaga el fuego interior.
Mary, Princess of Orange (1631-1660). Portrait painted in 1639.
The
eldest daughter of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Mary was
distinguished as a young girl for her intelligence and beauty.
She married William II of Orange when she was nine and he fifteen and
went to the Netherlands three years later in 1644. When her husband
became Stadholder in 1647 she shared in his public duties. After
William’s sudden death the Republicans gained control and for the rest
of her life Mary struggled for the rights of her son William (later
William III of England), born just a few days after his father’s death,
and those of her brother Charles (later Charles II).
This charming portrait shows her before a view of a knot garden in
which women and children are walking with a vista of a landscape
beyond.
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