The Life and Times of Hortens Manchinie

Hortens Manchinie was one of seven nieces that will become famed as the Mazarinets. As a Cardinal, Mazarin could not have official children but he did partake in dynastic marriage making. She and her siblings were key to his plans to firmly entrench himself at the apex of the French political establishment. First out of the gates was none other than King Charles of England who had expressed this wish while still in exile.