Fw: Mary

< Ricahrdson asks "What's wrong with Queen Mary anyhow?"

Don't tell Pas, but my last name is Richardson, not Ricahrdson. Pas
may call me Douglas, though, if he so desires.

< By his "consistent" standard everything is wrong with this -
< Henrietta Maria was named for both her parents, and her mother
< was Italian. So "Maria" would have been the natural form in her
< native language, just as "Marie" was in French.

I'm not sure what Pas means by a "consistent standard." Queen
Henriette Marie was called Queen Mary at the direction of her husband,
King Charles I, not Douglas Richardson. Also, it had nothing to do
with her "natural language."

I ask again: What is wrong with Queen Mary?

< By her own household, after the Restoration, in an indenture dated 6
< May 1661 the queen was called "The most high and excellent Princesse
< Henriette Marie by the Grace of God Queene of England
< Scotlande ffrance and Ireland mother to the said Kinges Majestie".

Here Pas shows an example of the queen being correctly styled
"Henriette Marie" in her lifetime. Bit he tells us this is wrong. Now
go figure. Perhaps he thinks the Latin form of her name, Henrietta
Maria, is more uppity.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah