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The article discusses the ceremonial cultures of the courts of Elizabeth of Bohemia and Princess Mary Stuart in the Hague, the Netherlands in the mid-seventeenth century. According to the author, the courts of Elizabeth and Princess Mary in the Hague should be considered as shifting entities in terms of status and patronage throughout the 1640s and the 1650s. Both Elizabeth and the princess were exiled. The author asserted that the divertissements of both Elizabeth and Mary are similar to the masquing culture which propelled individuals such as Lady Frances Howard and Lady Anne Clifford into a conscious manipulation of and intervention into cultural politics in their own regions, networks and communities.