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Elizabeth, the daughter of James I and fugitive queen of Bohemia, whose husband, Frederick V was Charlotte's cousin. There the marriage took place on 26 June, 1626, the ceremony being disturbed by a contest for precedence between the English and French ambassadors. She was seven years her husband's senior. For sixteen years after her marriage Lady Strange lived quietly with her husband at Knowsley or Lathom House, and during this period she bore him nine children. At the outbreak of the civil war when her husband had joined the king, she conducted a gallant defence of Lathom house against the parliamentary troops, lasting from February until the end of May, when the siege was raised by Prince Rupert. Rupert presented the countess with twenty-two banners which he captured from her besiegers. After Marston Moor she retired to the Isle of Man with her husband and on his execution returned to Knowsley, where she died in 1664. The Countess is portrayed in Scott's Peveril of the Peak and in Harrison Ainsworth's Leaguer of Lathom.