ELIZABETH English princess, second daughter of Charles I., was born on Dec. 28, 1635, at St. James's Palace. On the outbreak of the Civil War and the departure of the king from London, while the two elder princes accompanied their father, the princess and the infant duke of Gloucester were left under the care of the parliament. In July 1644 the royal children were sent to Sir John Danvers at Chelsea, and in 1645 to the earl and countess of Northumberland. After the final defeat of the king they were joined in 1646 by James, and during 1647 paid several visits to the king at Caversham, near Reading, and Hampton Court, but were again separated by Charles's imprison ment at Carisbrooke castle. On April 21, 1648, James was per suaded to escape by Elizabeth, who declared that were she a boy she would not long remain in confinement. The last sad meeting between Charles and his two children, at which the princess was overcome with grief, and of which she wrote a short and touching account, took place on Jan. 29, 1649, the day before his execution. In June she was sent to the earl and countess of Leicester at Pens hurst, but in 165o, upon the landing of Charles II. in Scotland, the parliament ordered the royal children to be taken for security to Carisbrooke castle. The princess fell ill, and died of fever on Sept. 8. She was buried in St. Thomas's church at Newport, Isle of Wight, where the initials "E.S." alone marked her grave till 1856, when a monument was erected to her memory by Queen Victoria. Several books were dedicated to the princess, including the translation of the Electra of Sophocles by Christopher Wase in 1649. Her mild nature and gentleness towards her father's enemies gained her the name of "Temperance." See M. A. E. Green, Lives of the Princesses of England (1855), vol. vi.