Elizabeth, daughter of James I of England, Scotland and Ireland, and Anne of Denmark, about 7 years old, later married to Frederick V, elector Palatine of the Rhine, king of Bohemia (“the Winter King”, 1619-1620): “[One of the Gunpowder plotters most important objectives was the kidnapping of the nine-year-old Princess Elizabeth. The King’s daughter was house at Coombe Abbey, near Coventry … The previous year [1604] she had already proved herself capable of carrying out royal duties in nearby Coventry. … the conspirators knew that she could fulfil a ceremonial role despite her comparative youth. The ceremonial role which the Powder Treason Plotters had in mind was that of titular Queen. [Her elder brother Henry was expected to be with his father during the opening of Parliament and so would die as well. It was unsure if four-year-old Prince Charles would be present, so one of the plotters would grab him from his own separate household in London. Princess Mary, born on 9 April 1605, was considered to be too young to become a viable figurehead Queen.] (Antonia Fraser, The Gunpowder Plot [London 1996], p. 116-117)