The winter queen: Elizabeth Stuart

Why was Henry, Prince of Wales sister Elizabeth Stuart called the winter queen?

The lost prince and the winter queen
royal portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, London
3 Jul -- 28 Sep 2014
Free admission
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[cobaltwill]

I feel like the picture at 2:22 looks very similar to her grandmother, Mary Queen of Scots.

[kkallebb]

Interesting.  Wish someone would post a substantial presentation on the life and death of Prince Henry.

[JiandiP]

"...that brief reign of Fredrick and Elizabeth in the Palatinate was a Hermetic golden age, nourished on the alchemical movement led by Michael Maier...

The strangely exciting suggestion is that the Rosicrucian movement in Germany was the delayed result of [John] Dee's mission in Bohemia over twenty years earlier, influences from which became associated with the Elector Palatine.

...In the years 1614-1619- the years of the Rosicrucian furore set off by the manifestos- the Elector Palatine and his wife [Elizabeth Stuart] were reigning at Heidelberg, and Christian of Anhalt was working up towards the Bohemian adventure.

...a movement towards solving religious problems along mystical lines suggested by Hermetic and Cabbalist influences."

[MurdocIsASaint]

she had a rough life, marrying a failed usurper is a tough time