Nadine Akkerman is Professor in Early Modern Literature and Culture at Leiden University and author of the critically acclaimed Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain and of The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. In 2017 she was elected to The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received a Special Recognition Award from the World Cultural Council, and in 2019 received an Ammodo Science Prize for fundamental research in the humanities.

An extraordinary biography of a much-maligned and much-forgotten queen... Akkerman knows her archive as few have ever done, and demonstrates how to resurrect an early modern woman.

• Introduction: A Winter Queen? Prologue Part I: 1596-1612 1: A Family Reunion 2: Periwigs and Powder Plots 3: Protestant Unions 4: The Marriage of Thames and Rhine Part II: 1613-1620 5: Heidelberg - The Eye of the Storm 6: In the Service of the Electress 7: Queen of Bohemia 8: Troubles in Prague Escalate Part III: 1621-1632 9: A Republican Queen 10: Military Manoeuvres 11: Unseverable Ties with Austria and Spain 12: 'I can send you nothing but deaths' 13: An 'Evil State' 14: Losing Champions Part IV: 1632-1642 15: A Widow's Weeds 16: Unlikely Bedfellows 17: The Archbishop Strikes Back Part V: 1642-1662 18: Obeisance to His Majesty and Love to the Parliament 19: Undesirable Matches, Unfortunate Endings 20: Three Widows Epilogue: Turn Out the Lights

Nadine Akkerman is Professor in Early Modern Literature and Culture at Leiden University and author of the critically acclaimed Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain and of The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. In 2017 she was elected to The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received a Special Recognition Award from the World Cultural Council, and in 2019 received an Ammodo Science Prize for fundamental research in the humanities.

An extraordinary biography of a much-maligned and much-forgotten queen... Akkerman knows her archive as few have ever done, and demonstrates how to resurrect an early modern woman.

• Introduction: A Winter Queen? Prologue Part I: 1596-1612 1: A Family Reunion 2: Periwigs and Powder Plots 3: Protestant Unions 4: The Marriage of Thames and Rhine Part II: 1613-1620 5: Heidelberg - The Eye of the Storm 6: In the Service of the Electress 7: Queen of Bohemia 8: Troubles in Prague Escalate Part III: 1621-1632 9: A Republican Queen 10: Military Manoeuvres 11: Unseverable Ties with Austria and Spain 12: 'I can send you nothing but deaths' 13: An 'Evil State' 14: Losing Champions Part IV: 1632-1642 15: A Widow's Weeds 16: Unlikely Bedfellows 17: The Archbishop Strikes Back Part V: 1642-1662 18: Obeisance to His Majesty and Love to the Parliament 19: Undesirable Matches, Unfortunate Endings 20: Three Widows Epilogue: Turn Out the Lights

Nadine Akkerman is Professor in Early Modern Literature and Culture at Leiden University and author of the critically acclaimed Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain and of The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. In 2017 she was elected to The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received a Special Recognition Award from the World Cultural Council, and in 2019 received an Ammodo Science Prize for fundamental research in the humanities.

An extraordinary biography of a much-maligned and much-forgotten queen... Akkerman knows her archive as few have ever done, and demonstrates how to resurrect an early modern woman.

• Introduction: A Winter Queen? Prologue Part I: 1596-1612 1: A Family Reunion 2: Periwigs and Powder Plots 3: Protestant Unions 4: The Marriage of Thames and Rhine Part II: 1613-1620 5: Heidelberg - The Eye of the Storm 6: In the Service of the Electress 7: Queen of Bohemia 8: Troubles in Prague Escalate Part III: 1621-1632 9: A Republican Queen 10: Military Manoeuvres 11: Unseverable Ties with Austria and Spain 12: 'I can send you nothing but deaths' 13: An 'Evil State' 14: Losing Champions Part IV: 1632-1642 15: A Widow's Weeds 16: Unlikely Bedfellows 17: The Archbishop Strikes Back Part V: 1642-1662 18: Obeisance to His Majesty and Love to the Parliament 19: Undesirable Matches, Unfortunate Endings 20: Three Widows Epilogue: Turn Out the Lights