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Letters to King James the Sixth from the Queen, Prince Henry, Prince Charles, the Princess Elizabeth and her husband, Frederick, king of Bohemia, and from their son, Prince Frederick Henry, T. Constable, Edinburgh, 1835
Above: Elizabeth Stuart, princess of England and future queen of Bohemia, painted by Robert Peake the Elder.
Above: King James IV of Scotland and I of England, painted by a follower of John de Critz.
Elizabeth Stuart (born August 19, 1596, died February 13, 1662) was Electress of the Palatinate and briefly Queen of Bohemia as the wife of Friedrich V of the Palatinate. Because her husband's reign in Bohemia and Palatinate lasted just one winter, Elizabeth is often referred to as "the Winter Queen."
Elizabeth was the second child and eldest daughter of James IV and I, King of Scotland, England, and Ireland, and his wife, Anne of Denmark. With the demise of the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, in 1714, Elizabeth's grandson succeeded to the British throne as King George I, initiating the Hanoverian dynasty.
The letter:
Sire,
Jo mi pasceua d'vna speranza che quella traditora doglia hauesse pur fatta perpetua pace co sacri piedi di V. M. ma intesi poi con grandiss.o mio cordoglio che nonera stata ch'vna corta tregua, et che di nuouo le haueua dati di crudeli assalti, che mi sono stati tante ferite al cuore, et ancora mi tengono in forse, s'io sia viva ò morta sin che questo latore col desiato raguaglio della sua perfetta conualescenza rauuiui i miei tramortiti spiriti, che mentre vegeteranno cotesto corpo, offeriranno sempre caldi preghi à Dio per la prosperita di V. M. sommo bene temporale della
Sua humiliss:a figl:a
Elizabeth
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