Kate Maltby Kate Maltby

With Elizabeth Stuart as monarch, might the English civil war have been avoided?

She was a very different character to her brother Charles I, and many contemporaries would have preferred her as a ruler, says Nadine Akkerman

Portrait of Elizabeth Stuart by Marcus Gheeraerts, 1612. From childhood, she modelled herself on Elizabeth I and even copied her signature. Credit: Bridgeman Images

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