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Biographical Sketch
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Mary of Orange, who, according to the terms of her marriage contract of the previous year, was taken to Holland by her mother, Henrietta Maria, to join her husband in 1642, having reached her twelfth year. Conditions at The Hague, together with the uncompromising disposition of the high-spirited little princess, made Dury's position an uncomfortable one, and he resigned it before Mary was fully installed in her position; but perhaps some of the pathetic gravity, ease and decorum with which, shortly afterwards, at the mature age of thirteen, she gave audiences, received ambassadors, and mingled in court festivities may
