Author: Ronald Hutton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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A biography of the king who is remembered by the English with more popular affection than any almost any other. Covering his entire life, it takes in his colourful years as a prince and as an exiled monarch during the Civil War and Interregnum, in addition to his later career as effective ruler of three kingdoms.

Author: Jacob Abbott
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387055854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author: Antonia Fraser
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1780220685
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 722

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Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660. Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration, Antonia Fraser's lively and fascinating biography captures all the vitality of the man and the expansiveness of the age.

Author: Michael Walsh
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 0748126546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years. Men who had once been among the most powerful figures in England ended up on the scaffold, on the run, or in fear of the assassin's bullet. History has painted the regicides and their supporters as fanatical Puritans, but among them were remarkable men, including John Milton and Oliver Cromwell. Don Jordan and Michael Walsh bring these remarkable figures and this astonishing story vividly to life an engrossing, bloody tale of plots, spies, betrayal, fear and ambition.

Author: Anthony Harvey
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9780851158792
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Westminster Abbey contains a unique and important group of effigies, some familiar, many little-known, including kings, queens, statesmen and national heroes, ranging in time from the middle ages to the early nineteenth century. They derive from a time when an effigy of the dead monarch, statesman or national hero played an important part in funeral ritual, offering a visible likeness as a focus to the ceremonial of the funeral. This richly illustrated book, which is the first substantial publication on the effigies since 1936, is both a history of the collection and of the origins and development of the funeral effigy, and a full descriptive catalogue of the twenty-one examples in the Abbey. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author: Linda Porter
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466858486
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Publishers Weekly called Katherine the Queen “Rich, perceptive, and creative.” In Royal Renegades, Porter examines the turbulent lives of the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars. 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, acclaimed historian Linda Porter brings to life their personalities, legacies, and rivalries for the first time. As their 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 governess, escaped with the king’s youngest child to France where she eventually married the cruel and flamboyant Philippe d’Orleans. When their "dark and ugly" brother Charles eventually succeeded his father to the English throne after fourteen years of wandering, he promptly enacted a vengeful punishment on those who had spurned his family, with his brother James firmly in his shadow. A tale of love and endurance, of battles and flight, of educations disrupted, the lonely death of a young princess and the wearisome experience of exile, Royal Renegades charts the fascinating story of the children of loving parents who could not protect them from the consequences of their own failings as monarchs and the forces of upheaval sweeping England.

Author: Bulstrode Whitlocke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Author: Charles I (King of England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Charles Spencer
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008153655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?

Author: George Savile Marquis of Halifax
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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