Rather Break than Bend
Clare Jackson: The Winter Queen, 26 May 2022
Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts
by Nadine Akkerman.
Oxford, 581 pp., £20, December 2021,978 0 19 966830 4 Show More
by Nadine Akkerman.
Oxford, 581 pp., £20, December 2021,
“... ministers would never dare tamper with the diplomatic correspondence of foreign princes, as ‘the king’s sister, I may claim as much or more respect from them’. When Charles continued to follow his father’s preference for diplomatic negotiations over military deployments, Elizabeth relayed to the archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, that she had ... ”