Mary de' Medici was obdurate as marble to his prayers.
The coronation was fixed for Thursday, the 13th May, two days later than the time originally appointed when the King conversed with the States' ambassadors.

On the following Sunday was to be the splendid and solemn entrance of the crowned Queen.

On the Monday, Henry, postponing likewise for two days his original plan of departure, would leave for the army.
Meantime there were petty annoyances connected with the details of the coronation.

Henry had set his heart on having his legitimatized children, the offspring of the fair Gabrielle, take their part in the ceremony on an equal footing with the princes of the blood.

They were not entitled to wear the lilies of France upon their garments, and the King was solicitous that "the Count"-- as Soissons, brother of Prince Conti and uncle of Conde, was always called--should dispense with those ensigns for his wife upon this solemn occasion, and that the other princesses of the blood should do the same.