Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

Electress consort of the Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (1596-1662)

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Lived 1596–1662, aged 66United Kingdom

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1596–1662
Aged 66

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Updated 2026-06-08

She was queen of Bohemia for a single winter before the throne collapsed beneath her, earning her a nickname that stuck for four centuries. The daughter of one king, sister of another, her own descendants would inherit the British crown long after the Stuarts themselves had gone.

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Elizabeth Stuart was born in Scotland on 19 August 1596, the only surviving daughter of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark, elder sister to the future Charles I. As a child she was unknowingly targeted by the Gunpowder Plot conspirators who planned to install her as a Catholic puppet queen. Her father instead married her to Frederick V of the Palatinate, a Protestant prince, in 1613 at Whitehall's Chapel Royal. When Bohemian nobles offered Frederick their crown in 1619, the couple's acceptance ignited the Thirty Years' War; his reign lasted one winter before they fled into exile at The Hague,…

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