Foreword

 
There are many well known Elizabeth’s in history but not many boys and girls have even heard of the Princess Elizabeth of this story.
Her story might just have been buried away in musty old encyclopedias had not Frances Bevan rescued it from oblivion and woven it through her book "Sketches of the Quiet in the Land.”
That book is now unobtainable and Mrs. Murray has done a real service in reviving the story of how the Princess who didn't want to be Queen won a crown.
RUTH SHELDRAKE