For as the years rolled on the union between Charles and Henrietta proved to be no passing affection born of youth and beauty, but the deep and increasing love of true marriage. It was as impossible for Henrietta as for any other good wife, whether princess or peasant, to consider a course of action apart from the interests of her husband, and those who had dealings with her had to learn, sometimes painfully, that her first consideration must always be he of whom she was accustomed to write, with pretty formality, as "le roi Monseigneur." She is considered, and rightly, to be a Queen of Tragedy. But in any estimate of her life it must be remembered that she had at least twelve years of such happiness as seldom falls to the lot of a royal woman. If later she was to find out that "There is no worldly pleasure here below Which by experience doth not folly prove," now she was learning "But among all the follies that I know The sweetest folly in the world is love";[102] and thus rank and riches, which to the unhappy are but an aggravation of their misery, could yield to her their truest pleasure. Moreover, she never had to learn, like poor Anne of Austria, how "Rich discontent's a glorious Hell."[103] Sorrow, when it came, stripped her bare of the mocking accessories of joy. [Footnote 61: In England Henrietta Maria was known as Queen Mary, but she always used the signature "Henriette Marie."] [Footnote 62: _Cal. S.P. Dom._, 1625-6, p. 415.] [Footnote 63: Sir Theodore Mayerne.] [Footnote 64: Henry Percy to Earl of Carlisle. _Cal. S.P. Dom._, 1625-49, p. 292.] [Footnote 65: _Cal. S.P. Dom._, 1628-9, p. 412. (Dec., 1628.)] [Footnote 66: Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 15.] [Footnote 67: William Habington: "Castara."] [Footnote 68: Sir Theodore Mayerne: _Cal. S.P. Dom._, 1628-9, p. 548.] [Footnote 69: See chapter IV.] [Footnote 70: Green: _Letters of Queen Henrietta Maria_, p. 17.] [Footnote 71: _Ibid._, p. 18.] [Footnote 72: Mary, who married the Prince of Orange; James, afterwards King of England; Elizabeth; Henry, Duke of Gloucester; Henrietta Anne, Duchess of Orleans; Anne, who died as an infant, and another daughter, who also died in infancy.] [Footnote 73: Her character is described at length in "The Character of the Most Excellent Lady Lucy of Carlisle," by Sir Tobie Matthews, prefixed to _A Collection of Letters made by Sir Tobie Matthews, K.C._ (1660).] [Footnote 74: Those of Rochefoucault.] [Footnote 75: In 1626 she was in debt to the amount of £6662 16s. 9d. to various tradesmen; it was her custom, as that of former Queen-Consorts, to employ chiefly foreign tradesmen and workmen.] [Footnote 76: The Queen saw it twice; the music was written by Simon Ivy and Henry Lawes.] [Footnote 77: _Cal. S.P. Dom._, 1625-6, p. 273.] [Footnote 78: In later days Henrietta Maria could say with Katharine of Aragon, "I am not such a truant since my coming As not to know the language I have liv'd in."