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ELIZABETH (1635–1650)

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ELIZABETH (1635–1650) , See also:English princess, second daughter of See also:Charles I., was See also:born on the 28th of See also:December 1635 at St See also:James's See also:Palace. On the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War and the departure of the See also:king from See also:London, while the two See also:elder princes accompanied their See also:father, the princess and the See also:infant See also:duke of See also:Gloucester were See also:left under the care of the See also:parliament. In See also:October 1642 Elizabeth sent a See also:letter to the See also:House of Lords begging that her old attendants might not be removed. In See also:July 1644 the royal See also:children were sent to See also:Sir See also:John See also:Danvers at See also:Chelsea, and in 1645 to the See also:earl and countess of See also:Northumberland. After the final defeat of the king they were joined in 1646 by James, and during 1647 paid several visits to the king at Caversham, near See also:Reading, and See also:Hampton See also:Court, but were again separated by Charles's imprisonment at See also:Carisbrooke See also:Castle. On the 21st of See also:April 1648 James was persuaded to See also:escape by Elizabeth, who declared that were she a boy she would not See also:long remain in confinement. The last sad See also:meeting between Charles and his two children, at which the princess was overcome with grief, and of which she wrote a See also:short and touching See also:account, took See also:place on the 29th of See also:January 1649, the See also:day before his See also:execution. In See also:June she was entrusted to the care of the earl and countess of See also:Leicester at See also:Penshurst, but in 165o, upon the landing of Charles II. in See also:Scotland, the parliament ordered the royal children to be taken for See also:security to Carisbrooke Castle. The princess See also:fell See also:ill from a wetting almost immediately upon her arrival, and died of See also:fever on the 8th of See also:September. She was buried in St See also:Thomas's See also:church at See also:Newport, Isle of See also:Wight, where the See also:initials " E.S." alone marked her See also:grave till 1856, when a See also:monument was erected to her memory by See also:Queen See also:Victoria. The princess's sorrowful career and See also:early See also:death have attracted See also:general See also:interest and sympathy. She was said to have acquired considerable proficiency in See also:Greek, See also:Hebrew and Latin, as well as in See also:Italian and See also:French, and several books were dedicated to her, including the See also:translation of the See also:Electra of See also:Sophocles by See also:Christopher Wase in 1649.

Her mild nature and gentleness towards her father's enemies gained her the name of " See also:

Temperance." See Lives of the Princesses of See also:England, by M. A. E. See also:Green (1855), vol. vi.; Notes and Queries, 7th See also:ser., ix. 444, X. 15.

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