Henry Frederick (1594–1612), Prince of Wales, and Sir John Harington (1592–1614) on the hunting field - Robert Peake the Elder, 1603
The half-Danish prince Henry Frederick sadly died of typhoid fever at 18. His best friend, the young baron John Harington, died only 16 months after from smallpox. Henry Frederick, son of King James I and Anne of Denmark, was immensely popular, almost more popular than his father. "Outgoing, witty, well educated, interested in sports and politics" on the one hand but "upright to the point of priggishness, he fined all who swore in his presence" according to Charles I's (his much less popular brother's) biographer. Harington, too, was well educated and pious, and kept a spiritual journal for four years. They were both Calvinists. When Harington toured Europe, as young nobility often did as a part of their education, he wrote to the prince every week. Such a tour was a little risky for a Protestant during the Inquisition, even for someone as prominent as Harington. They had to take several detours to avoid the more dangerous places. Most of the letters home were written in a tone to evade censorship, but in a letter which was clearly sent by a reliable courier, he told Henry that:
‘if I write to Your Highness of the superstitions, false miracles and relics which are displayed in this time of Lent, there would be not one letter but another Legenda Aurea [Golden Legend]’
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