The Stuart princess who could have deposed Charles I
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Is Elizabeth the First the Godmother of the Old Queen?
Elizabeth the first is actually the godmother of elizabeth stuart. People immediately start comparing her to the old queen. And this continues throughout her life, and she just runs with it. While all this is happening, she isn't forgotten about in the stuart kingdoms. She really is a protestant martyr. Why so she she catholic. Armies have driven her away, and she is living in exile in the dutch republic. There's still a lot of british soldiers fighting in the palatinate trying to get those german lands back that the emperor and bavaria and spain have also taken as a kind of reprecation of her husband taking the crown
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