ELIZABETH STUART, queen of Bo hemia: b. Falkland Palace, Fifeshire, 16 Aug. 1596; d. London, 13 Feb. 1662. She was a daughter of James I of England and was mar ried to the Palatine Frederick at Whitehall, 14 Feb. 1613. Her husband was then at the head of the Protestant interest in Germany, and in 1619 he accepted the crown of Bohemia offered to him by the revolted Protestants of that country. This he was only able to retain for a very short period; and after his defeat by the Inverialists at the battle of Prague in 1620, he and his wife were obliged to flee, first to Bres lau and Berlin, and then to The Hague. Elim beth had 13 children, several of wh,om died early. Charles Louis, the eldest surviving, was reinstated in the palatine by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. His daughter, Eliza beth Charlotte, was the second wife of Philip, Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV. Her
descendants were excluded by their Catholicism from the crown of England, but one of them was regent of France during the minority of Louis XV; and another, Louis Philippe, ascended the throne after the revolution of 1830. Her sons, Princes Rupert and Maurice, distinguished themselves in the civil war in England. Her daughter, Sophia, married into the house of Brunswick, became eiectress of Hanover and mother of George I. Elizabeth Stuart's cause was extremely popular with the English nation and after her husband was de prived of the crown. of Bohemia she still re tained among them the endearing epithet of "Queen of Hearts." She returned to England . at .the Restoration with her nephew, Charles II. Consult Green, Mrs. E., 'Lives of the Prin cesses of England' (London 1854).