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avrilhj's review
3.0
Actually 3.5 stars. Very lively and an easy read, but a few unforced errors (referring to Rupert of the Rhine as Charles II’s uncle, not cousin; getting the biblical story of the golden calf wrong), and an absolute inability to take religion seriously, when most of her subjects did. Still, fun.
irenep19's review
5.0
An excellent book, not only about the daughters of the Winter Queen, as the title suggests, but about the lives of all her children. It seems as though the book focuses more on the female offspring of the Queen of Bohemia, but the truth is that this happens mostly after the second half of it. Readers get significant information on the Stuart bloodline, both before and after their arrival in England, the life of Elizabeth Stuart and her family, and the political developments all around the European royal houses as time progresses along with them. I quite enjoyed the fact that the author manages to connect all of these events together, so as to enable the reader to place them accordingly. What I immensely enjoyed, however, was the author's writing style and various comments concerning unfolding matters in all of the protagonists' lives. The book essentially begins with the reign of the Stuarts and comes to explain how Elizabeth II, the current monarch of the United Kingdom, is descended from this house through the female line of Sophia, Electress of Hanover, the Queen of Bohemia's youngest daughter. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in the Stuarts and the 17th century political events in Europe.
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