Note 24 — I DESCENT AND PARENTAGE; CHILDHOOD AND GIRLHOOD (LEYDEN, THE HAGUE, AND RHEENEN, 1630-1650)

Elizabeth bore no love to the Swedish royal family, partly because of these memories, partly perhaps because of the Danish blood in her. (‘The States,’ she writes on one occasion, ‘are justly punished for assisting the Queen of Sweden against my uncle’ (Christian IV). She detested Gustavus’ daughter Christina. On the death of the Queen Dowager Maria Eleonora, she writes: ‘Queen Mother is dead, which makes her rap out with many an oth.’ (Unpublished Letters of the Queen of Bohemia to Sir Edward Nicholas, Antiq. Soc. Publ. 1857 (xvi).)