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Hay, Marie (1910), The Winter Queen: being the unhappy history of Elizabeth Stuart, electress palatine, queen of Bohemia; a romance, Boston, New York: Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin company; Jardine, Lisa (24 February 2013). "A Point of View: The Winter Queen of Bohemia". BBC Magazine.
Winter Queen may refer to: Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia (1596–1662), wife of Frederick V of the Palatinate; The Winter Queen, a 1998 novel in the Erast Fandorin series by Boris Akunin; The Winter Queen (1910), a historical novel by Marie Hay "The Winter Queen", a series of the BBC radio program Pilgrim
Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Chkartishvili, a Russian writer and academic who also worked as a translator of Japanese literature into Russian. Chkartishvili conceived of a series of detective novels demonstrating each of the genres of detective fiction, of which Chkartishvili found 16.
Old Man Winter, personification of winter. Frau Holle Germanic mother frost. Skaði (sometimes anglicized as Skadi, Skade, or Skathi) is a jötunn and goddess associated with bowhunting, skiing, winter, and mountains in Norse mythology; Three Friends of Winter in Chinese art, the plum, bamboo and pine. Nane Sarma, Grandma Frost, Iranian folklore.
The Snow Queen, a Skating Ballet (1983), choreographed by John Curry and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux; starring Curry, Janet Lynn, Toller Cranston, Dorothy Hamill and Sandra Bezic and aired on PBS [8] Tayna snezhnoy korolevy (The Secret of the Snow Queen) (1986), another live-action adaptation from the Soviet Union, featuring Alisa Freindlich as the ...
One of these women was Queen Henrietta Maria, of whom she published a biography in 2001. She continued with In a Free Republic: Life in Cromwell's England (2006) and the last of her 25 books, The Winter Queen (about Elizabeth Stuart, wife of Frederick V, Elector Palatine who accepted the crown of Bohemia), published posthumously in 2008.
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Ashdown House is associated with the "Winter Queen" Elizabeth of Bohemia, the older sister of Charles I. Along with his house at Hamstead Marshall, it is said that William, the first Earl of Craven built Ashdown for her, but she died in 1662 before construction began. [3] Ashdown House and its south lodge