Today’s readers have preferred the well-trodden reigns of the Tudors.īut Charles is revealed here as a complex and fascinating man who pays the price for bringing radical change Henrietta Maria is a warrior queen and political player as extraordinary as any Tudor. This has bred not only contempt, but also indifference. Too often he is recalled as weak and stupid, his wife, Henrietta Maria, as spoilt and silly: the cause of his ruin. The reign of Charles I is one of the most dramatic in history. Drawing on lost royal letters from a closed archive, White King introduces us to Charles I as the monarch at the heart of a story for our times: a tale of populist politicians and the fall of the mighty, of religious hatreds and civil war, of the power of a new media and a maligned queen.
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