Banquet for the English King Charles II in the Mauritshuis in The Hague

Represented here is the banquet offered by the States of Holland in May 1660 to Charles II before his departure for England. The English king sits on the right, between his aunt Elizabeth (the ‘Winter Queen’, who was expelled from Bohemia) and his sister Maria Henrietta Stuart, Princess of Orange. In the foreground is the latter’s son, the young William III, the future king of England.