The Queen Becomes the King’s Friend and Closest Advisor

CNG 94, Lot: 1996. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GREAT BRITAIN. Henrietta Maria. Queen consort, 1625-1649. AR Medal (28mm, 5.76 g, 6h). Commemorating the Increasingly Close Relationship Between Henrietta Maria and Charles Following the Death of the Duke of Buckingham. By N. Briot. Dated 1628. HENR · MAR · BORBON · D : G · MAG · BRIT · FRAN · ET · HIB · REG, crowned conjoined coats-of-arms of Great Britain and France; below, crowned HM monogram intertwined with laurel / SVPEREMINET OMNES (she surpasses all), view of a grove in which one tree overtops the rest; rosette stops. MI 249/23; Eimer 110. EF, toned.