Table Of ContentQUEENSHIP AND POWER
Series Editors: Carole Levin and Charles Beem
This series brings together monographs, edited volumes, and textbooks from
scholars specializing in gender analysis, women’s studies, literary interpretation,
and cultural, political, constitutional, and diplomatic history. It aims to broaden
our understanding of the strategies that queens—both consorts and regnants,
as well as female regents—pursued in order to wield political power within the
structures of male-dominant societies. In addition to works describing European
queenship, it also includes books on queenship as it appeared in other parts of the
world, such as East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Islamic civilization.
Editorial Board
Linda Darling, University of Arizona (Ottoman Empire)
Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University (Spain)
Dorothy Ko, Barnard College (China)
Nancy Kollman, Stanford University (Russia)
John Thornton, Boston University (Africa and the Atlantic World)
John Watkins (France and Italy)
Published by Palgrave Macmillan
The Lioness Roared: The Problems of Female Rule in English History
By Charles Beem
Elizabeth of York
By Arlene Naylor Okerlund
Learned Queen: The Image of Elizabeth I in Politics and Poetry
By Linda Shenk
“High and Mighty Queens” of Early Modern England: Realities and Representations
Edited by Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves
The Monstrous Regiment of Women: Female Rulers in Early Modern Europe
By Sharon L. Jansen
The Face of Queenship: Early Modern Representations of Elizabeth I
By Anna Riehl
Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch
By Ilona Bell
Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth
Edited by Alice Hunt and Anna Whitelock
The Death of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen
By Catherine Loomis
Queenship and Voice in Medieval Northern Europe
By William Layher
The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I
Edited by Charles Beem
The French Queen’s Letters: Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in
Sixteenth-Century Europe
By Erin A. Sadlack
Wicked Women of Tudor England: Queens, Aristocrats, Commoners
By Retha M. Warnicke
A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the
Reign of Elizabeth I
By Rayne Allinson
Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England
By Lisa Benz St. John
Mary I: Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen
By Sarah Duncan
The Last Plantagenet Consorts: Gender, Genre, and Historiography, 1440–1627
By Kavita Mudan Finn
Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship
By Jo Eldridge Carney
Mother Queens and Princely Sons: Rogue Madonnas in the Age of Shakespeare
By Sid Ray
The Name of a Queen: William Fleetwood’s Itinerarium ad Windsor
Edited by Charles Beem and Dennis Moore
The Emblematic Queen: Extra-Literary Representations of Early Modern Queenship
Edited by Debra Barrett-Graves
The Queens Regnant of Navarre: Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274–1512
By Elena Woodacre
Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and
Early Modern Eras
Edited by Elena Woodacre
The Queen’s Mercy: Gender and Judgment in Representations of Elizabeth I
By Mary Villeponteaux
Titled Elizabethans: A Directory of Elizabethan Court, State, and Church Officers,
1558–1603
Edited by Arthur F. Kinney and Jane A. Lawson
Elizabeth I’s Foreign Correspondence: Letters, Rhetoric, and Politics
Edited by Carlo M. Bajetta, Guillaume Coatalen, and Jonathan Gibson
The Man behind the Queen: Male Consorts in History
Edited by Charles Beem and Miles Taylor
Berenice II Euergetis: Essays in Early Hellenistic Queenship
By Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter
Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion
By Valerie Schutte
Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens
Edited by Carole Levin and Associate Editor Christine Stewart-Nu ñ ez
Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority from
Antiquity to the Early Modern Era
Edited by Elena Woodacre and Carey Fleiner
Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe: Henrietta Maria and
Marie Antoinette
By Carolyn Harris
Q R
UEENSHIP AND EVOLUTION
E M E
IN ARLY ODERN UROPE
Henrietta Maria and
Marie Antoinette
Carolyn Harris
QUEENSHIP AND REVOLUTION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Copyright © Carolyn Harris 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harris, Carolyn, 1984– author.
Queenship and revolution in early modern Europe : Henrietta Maria
and Marie Antoinette / Carolyn Harris.
pages cm.—(Queenship and power)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-349-57026-3
1. Queens—Europe—History. 2. Queens—Europe—Biography.
3. Henrietta Maria, Queen, consort of Charles I, King of England,
1609–1669. 4. Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI,
King of France, 1755–1793. 5. Europe—Court and courtiers—
History. 6. Europe—Politics and government. I. Title.
D244.7.H37 2015
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For Bruce, with love
C
ONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Queen versus the People 1
1 Education, Example, and Expectations 15
2 Governing the Queen’s Household 49
3 Wife of the King 85
4 Mother to the Royal Children 121
5 The English Civil Wars and the French Revolution 155
Conclusion: The Legacy of Two Queens 193
Notes 203
Bibliography 247
Index 265
