Elizabeth of England and Scotland (1635–1650) was the second daughter of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France. Elizabeth was born on 28 December 1635 at St. James's Palace, and was baptized there on 2 January the next year by William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
In 1636, Maria de' Medici, Elizabeth's maternal grandmother, attempted to have the infant princess betrothed to the son of the Prince of Orange, the future Willi...
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Elizabeth of England and Scotland (1635–1650) was the second daughter of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France. Elizabeth was born on 28 December 1635 at St. James's Palace, and was baptized there on 2 January the next year by William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
In 1636, Maria de' Medici, Elizabeth's maternal grandmother, attempted to have the infant princess betrothed to the son of the Prince of Orange, the future William II of Orange. Despite the fact that Charles I thought the marriage of a Princess of England to a Prince of Orange beneath her rank, the king's financial and political troubles forced him to send Elizabeth's sister, Princess Mary, the Princess Royal, to marry him instead.
On the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, Princess Elizabeth, along with her brother the Duke of Gloucester, were placed under the care of Parliament. Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, acted as their guardian. When Parliament removed Elizabeth's household, she...
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