PRINCE RUPERT A HELP OR HINDRANCE TO THE ROYALIST CAUSE?

Prince Rupert of the Rhine was born in Prague, Bohemia, on 17 December 1619 – the third son of Charles I’s sister Elizabeth by her marriage to Frederick, the Elector of the Palatinate. Frederick’s assumption of the throne of Bohemia prompted an invasion by the forces of the Hapsburg Emperor and in November 1620 Rupert’s family were driven into exile at the court of the Prince of Orange in Holland where Rupert grew up. He was a gifted