Excerpt from Elizabeth: Electress Palatine and Queen of BohemiaIn two cases, she speaks confidently on points which have provoked considerable difference of Opinion in modern histo rians, m'e whether the Elector Palatine had plotted to oh tain the Bohemian throne before his election in 1619 and (2) whether Elizabeth did or did not urge and in¿uence his accept ance of that throne.The first of these questions she answers in the negative. True, she draws attention to the fact that, so early as 1612, when the young Elector - then only sixteen years of age - came to England to woo his bride, the rumour ran that James boasted that his son-in-law elect would be, ere long, a king, but, as regards Frederic's personal attitude in the matter, she believes that the honour was unsolicited and unexpected, that not only his own steady disavowal (the disavowal of one scrupulously honourable in adhering to the truth but the testimony of eye witnesses, show that he did not even guess at the event before hand.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.