Helen Castor discussed Elizabeth Stuart on Woman\u2019s Hour BBC Radio 4 this morning.<\/p>\n
\u2018It\u2019s expected that Parliament will pass legislation later this year which would allow a girl to succeed to the throne over a younger brother. We\u2019ve been looking back in history to tell the stories of the Lost Queens \u2013 women who would have become monarch if, simply, the oldest child had taken the throne. Elizabeth Stuart was the elder sister of Charles I. How different might the course of history have been if she had become a Queen of England? Our reporter, Louise Adamson, has been talking to the historian Helen Castor about the woman who came to be known as the Winter Queen of Bohemia.\u2019<\/p>\n
From Woman\u2019s Hour<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n You can listen at the Woman\u2019s Hour website. The interview is 14 minutes in.<\/p>\n Women\u2019s Hour \u2013 Lost Queens: Elizabeth Stuart<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Helen Castor discussed Elizabeth Stuart on Woman\u2019s Hour BBC Radio 4 this morning. \u2018It\u2019s expected that Parliament will pass legislation later this year which would allow a girl to succeed to the throne over a younger brother. We\u2019ve been looking … Continue reading