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Princess Elizabeth was the only surviving daughter of James VI and I, King of Scotland, England, and Ireland, and his queen, Anne of Denmark; she was the elder sister of Charles I. Born in Scotland, she was named in honour of her father's predecessor and cousin in England, Elizabeth I.
James VI was the son of two grandchildren of Margaret Tudor. Arbella Stuart, the most serious other contender by the late 16th century, was the daughter of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox's younger son Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox. James VI's mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, was considered a plausible successor to the English throne.
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, National Portrait Gallery, London, thought to be a wedding portrait, her pearl and diamond necklace may represent the jewels given by the cities of Edinburgh and London Portrait of Frederick V of the Palatinate by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1613 King James and Frederick went to Royston to talk things over, now that Elizabeth was nearer in succession to ...
James had often neglected the business of government for leisure pastimes, such as the hunt; his later dependence on favourites at a scandal-ridden court undermined the respected image of monarchy so carefully constructed by Elizabeth I. [185] Under James, the Plantation of Ulster by English and Scots Protestants began, and the English ...
Her second son succeeded James as King Charles I. Her daughter Elizabeth was the "Winter Queen" of Bohemia and the grandmother of King George I of Great Britain. miscarriage (September 1590) Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (19 February 1594 – 6 November 1612). Died, probably of typhoid fever, aged 18. [226] miscarriage (July 1595).
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) [b] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor.
Elizabeth Stuart (28 December 1635 – 8 September 1650) was the second daughter of Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his wife, Henrietta Maria of France. From age six until her death at age 14, Elizabeth was a prisoner of the English Parliament during the English Civil War .
Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchess of Orleans (born 1652), daughter of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, deceased second son of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, James I's deceased eldest daughter Parliament offered the throne jointly to James II's elder daughter, who became Mary II , and her husband and first cousin, William III .