Her tears, her smiles, her caresses won boon after boon for her co-religionists, until she wrung from him the last, the most disastrous concession of all.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
It is hardly too much to say that she pulled down her husband's throne to help her co-religionists, and yet in the light of future events it must be gravely questioned whether the progress of Catholicism under her protection was not too dearly bought by the terror and hatred which it inspired in the English mind, and whether in the end the Church was advanced by her coming into England.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
She also knew better than any one else what the hatred of the Puritans to her co-religionists really was, and what their domination might mean.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes