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Show 1 "VAMPS" WHO ' I MADE HISTORY By JAMES C. YOUNG. g ( by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) THE WOMAN WHO "SOLD" ENGLAND. ENG-LAND. HENRIETTA STUART was a cnlnS; and fastidious beauty with the pale loveliness and slight coloring of the consumptive. She was born in 1044, the daughter of Charles I, w-ho: died on the block. Her mother fled to France, leaving Henrietta with a trusted woman. This woman afterward after-ward disguised the young miss as a boy and started to leave tho country. All the way to Dover she protested that she was not "a ragged boy," but "the princess." Fortunately her childish child-ish prattle was not understood. In France Henrietta grew to early beauty, and at seventeen was married to Philippe, Due d'Orleans, the only brother of Louis XIV. The king loved her, and it was through her that he met Louise rle la Yalliere. When Henrietta lost her hold over Louis she became involved in an affair with the Comte Armand de Guiche.-They Guiche.-They were separated, to meet again at a masked ball. As the two were talking talk-ing they saw Philippe approaching. De Guiche hurried down the stairs. Henrietta fainted and fell the length of the flight into De Guiche's arms. That almos cost him his head. .1 Although Louis had put Henrietta aside she undertook a secret mission for him to her brother, Charles II of England. And through her a treaty was negotiated by which Charles undertook un-dertook . to join Louis in an invasion of Holland, and to renounce Protestan-ism Protestan-ism for Catholicism, all for a heavy price. If England rebelled, France was to send troops ancl more money. Historians have called this treaty "the sale of England to France" but it never nev-er was carried out. For this . important service Henri--etta enjoyed the high favor of Louis. She detested her husband, a querulous queru-lous fop, and her love affairs were many. But it is doubtful if she ever truly loved anyone, for her abiding passion was a worship of ceremony, fine clothes, entertainments and all '", the gallantries of the. court. She was an elusive beauty who inspired affection affec-tion in many hearts, but it would seem to have been her pleasure to toy with the fire of life rather than to play with it. When only twenty-six she fell mysteriously mys-teriously III, and many have believed that she 'was poisoned. No evidence could be found. The king came to her In her last moments and was so distressed dis-tressed at her sufferings that he suggested sug-gested leaving. But she begged him' i to stay, saying, "I suppose that I : must die according to etiquette,"- and repressed all signs of her agony until the end came. |