Note 26 — I DESCENT AND PARENTAGE; CHILDHOOD AND GIRLHOOD (LEYDEN, THE HAGUE, AND RHEENEN, 1630-1650)

It would seem as if after her husband’s death she had for a time approved the style of ‘the King’s only sister.’ (See Wotton’s letter ap. L. P. Smith, u.s., Vol. ii. p. 342.) When, on the marriage of her daughter Princess Henrietta in 1651, her son Charles Lewis took exception to the title ‘Queen of Bohemia,’ Elizabeth wrote to him indignantly that ‘leauing it you doe me so much wrong as to the memorie of your dead father, as if you disapproved his actions’; and declared that whatever public instrument she might at any time have to sign, she would never sign it without the royal style. Letters, &c., ed. by A. Wendland, p. 16.