Tea will be served from 4.45.

Suggested preparatory reading:

Helmer Helmers, ‘The Cry of the Royal Blood. Revenge Tragedy and the Stuart Cause in the Dutch Republic’, in A. van Dixhoorn et al (eds.), ‘The Sharpness of a Honed Tongue’. Literary Culture and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650 (2011), 219-50; Michelle Anne White, Henrietta Maria and the English Civil Wars (2006), ch. 3; Simon Groenveld, ‘The House of Orange and the House of Stuart, 1639-1650: A Revision’, Historical Journal, 34 (1991), esp. 955-61.