Your native isles does with your praises ring,
But above all, a nymph of your own train
Gives us your character in such a strain
As none but she who in that Court did dwell
Could know such world, or worth describe so well.”[[35]]
[35]. “Tudor and Stuart Princesses.” Agnes Strickland.
Meanwhile Anne’s fate, all unsuspected, was advancing towards her with swift and unfaltering steps.
Queen Henrietta had never been able to reconcile to herself Princess Mary’s appointment of Hyde’s daughter about her person, and since its accomplishment had constantly appealed to her to dismiss Anne from her service.[[36]] Lord Hatton, in fact, writes: “The Queen’s last sickness was by the chamber confident said to be expressed by the Queen by reason of some late letters from the young Prsse Orange wherein she still contests for retaining with her Sir E. H. daughter which the Queen will not cease till she out her there. This I assure you comes from eare witnesses.”
[36]. “Lives of Princesses of England.” M. A. Everett-Green.
Mary was, however, quite as resolute as her mother, and when in 1655 she formed the project of a visit to Paris, it was with the intention of taking her favourite in her train.