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Royal renegades : the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Title:
Royal renegades : the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars / Linda Porter.
Publication:
London : Macmillan, 2016.
Physical description:
432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, genealogical table, map, portraits ; 25 cm.
Notes:
First published in Great Britain as: Crown of thistles : the fatal inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots. London, Macmillan, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known, as is the restoration of his eldest son as Charles II eleven years later. But what happened to the king's six surviving children is far less familiar. Casting new light on the heirs of the doomed king and his unpopular but indefatigable Catholic queen, Henrietta Maria, acclaimed historian Linda Porter brings to life their personalities, legacies, feuds and rivalries for the first time. As their calm and loving family life was shattered by war, Elizabeth and Henry were used as pawns in the parliamentary campaign against their father; Mary, the Princess Royal, was whisked away to the Netherlands as the child bride of the Prince of Orange; Henriette Anne's redoubtable governess escaped with the king's youngest child to France where she grew up under her mother's thumb and eventually married the cruel and flamboyant Philippe d'Orleans.
ISBN:
9781447267546 (hardback)

1447267540 (hardback)
Record ID:
SD_ILS:1209701