Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia

A short biography of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia. Elizabeth Stuart (19 August 1596 – 13 February 1662) was, as the wife of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, Electress Palatine and briefly Queen of Bohemia. Because her husband’s reign in Bohemia lasted for just one winter, Elizabeth is often referred to as The Winter Queen. She was the second child and eldest daughter of James VI and I, King of Scots, England and Ireland, and his wife Anne of Denmark. With the demise of the Stuart dynasty in 1714, her descendants, the Hanoverian rulers, succeeded to the British throne. The reigning British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, is Elizabeth Stuart's ninth great-granddaughter.