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Try English history for Queen Henrietta Maria, a French princess who married King Charles I of England but was lucky enough not to get her head chopped off in the Civil War (he did!) - she returned to France. She was a Catholic, as you would expect French royalty to be, and one of the issues of that war was whether Charles could be considered a "real" Protestant in view of his marriage - which was an arranged one, of course.

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Henrietta Maria was too much of a mouthful for the Royalist armies, who charged into battle yelling "Queen Mary!" instead.