The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-31
A LITTLE PRINCESS
Pathetic Story Of Elizabeth, Second
Daughter Of Charles |.
SEVEN YEARS A PRISONER
Her Lovely Character. Wonderful
Attachments and sad Fate
Died With Her Cheek
Upon the Bible.

Have you never wished that Won had
been born prince or a princess? Most
boys and girls have such fancies now
and then. especially IL they are deeply |
read in fairy lore. What could be joi- |
Her than to have all the money you !
want, servants to crafty every wish, |
dogs and horses and dresses and toys |
without stint-in short. to have ones |
own way in everything?
But people who think in this way are |
very much mistaken. Probably there |
are hardly any children in the world |
who have less freedom-fewer real |
good times"-than the sons and daugh- |
tiers of kings. Many of them would |
gladly have changed places with the |
poorest children that play upon the |
streets; their misfortunes are often as
great as their rank is high. In the past |
this was especially true: and here is a |
sad little tale to prove IL.
The Princess Elizabeth-who must /,
not be confused with the famous queen |
who ruled England so long and we'll |
was the second daughter of that
Charles l. who was so loved and so.
hated, who ruled so i'll and died so well. |
But when the little princess was born |
In st. James palace on the third day |
after Christmas Tin the year 1880, Ii |
was thought that her life would be a
very happy one. A few days later she |
was baptized by Archbishop Land, the |
sincere but misguided prelate whose |
blood at first flowed on the scaffold |
but there was then no thought of the |
disasters that were in store.
On the contrary. her parents received |
many congratulations from royal peo- |
pie abroad and loyal people at home |
on account OF her birth. and the unit |
ed provinces of Holland sent a special
embassy to England with beautiful
presents for King Charles and Queen
Henrietta. Among the gifts We're two
original paintings by Titan, two by
Tintoretto, two costly china bowls and
a curious clock.
From the day of her birth the Prin- |
cess Elizabeth had a full suite of at |
tendants of her own-a nurse, three |
cradle rockers, groom of the back |
stairs and all sorts of nursery servants
OF lower rank. She had the same gov |
erness as her elder sister Mary-the |
Countess OF Roxburg, whom both little |
princesses loved very dearly There !
was difference of four years in the !
ages OF these two royal sisters; but
they looked much alike, with their long |
fair curls and regular features. The |
poet Crashaw wrote poem about /
them, calling them two silken flowers |
on one STEM" Elizabeth. however |
was the more delicate, and had an un-
usually sensitive and affectionate dis
position.
When but years old her parents |
thought of betrothing hereafter the |
fashion of princesses-to william |
Prince of Orange; but they finally de- |
cided that the English wife whom the |
Dutch prince was seeking should be |
Mary.
Little Elizabeth was only wears old |
when she and her sister she loved so /
well were separated; for when the
Princess Mary was married Queen |
Henrietta took her to Holland TO live
with the family OF her husband. AL
though neither knew IL then, mother
and daughter were never to meet !
again. War had broken out between
King Charles and his subjects, and
Elizabeth lived a lonely life i'm the
great palace, with no companion but
her baby brother. Henry. and her kind
governess. Her father had taken her
elder brothers with him when he Joined
his troops: and when Queen Henrietta
returned TO England after her year i'm
Holland, she could neither Join her
children nor send for them to come to
her. Henry and Elizabeth were really
prisoners In St James, and the house
OF commons, which now had every
thing its own way. hardly allowed them
decent food and clothes.
After while, however, parliament
ordered proper amount of money TO
be paid them every month. But the
children were Ill and unhappy. and in
the midst of their troubles their much
the little prisoners must have been
then. with nobody to care for them but
two or three faithful servants. and one
day i'm l64S the peers i'm the house of
lords listened to the following letter
which the Earl of Pembroke had
brought him from our princess:
MY Lords-I account myself very
miserable that l must have my serv-
ants taken from me and strangers nut
TO me. You promised me that you
would have care of me. and | hope
you will show IL in preventing so great
a grief. as this would be to me- / pray.
my lords, consider of 1t, and give me
cause to thank you. and to rest.
Your loving friend.
Elizabeth.
ITO the Right Honorable. the Lords
and Peers in Parliament"
This was very dignifed letter for a
little girl hardly years old to write.
1t was so pathetic. too, that the lords
began to inquire whether the commons
dared to think of taking Elizabeth's
servants from her. The commons said
in excuse that there was a plot going
on to take away the children to their
father at oxford. But whether there
was a plot or not. the lords forbade the
commons TO interfere with the servants
of the little captives.
The children now had a new govern
ess. the Countess OF Dorset. and Eliza
beth, like her grand namesake. Queen
Elizabeth. was fond of study. She is
said TO have been able TO read Greek
Latin and Hebrew. as well as French
Spanish and Italian. before she was 10
years old. IL is hard to believe that
one so young, even by diligent study.
could achieve so much. But more than
one learned man of her time compli-
mented her learning-among them
William Greenhill. who dedicated a
book on the Scriptures TO her. and
Alexander Rowley. who i'm defeating
to her his Scholars COMPANION"
called her the peerless Elizabeth"
The beautiful picture OF Elizabeth by
Millais. shows her seated at a table
pen in hand. half finished letter lying
before her. She is lost in thought and
her face is very sad. What a contrast
is this TO the picture Van Dyck painted
of the children of Charles l.. which rep