Leanda de Lisle
Henrietta Maria Paperback Book
A mythbusting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZEHenrietta Maria, Charles Is queen, is the most reviled consort in British history. Condemned as the Popish brat of France and a notorious whore, she remains in popular memory the woman who turned the king Catholic so causing a civil war and a cruel and bigoted mother.Leanda de Lisle unpicks these myths to reveal a very different queen. We meet a new bride who enjoyed annoying her uptight husband, who was a passionate advocate for the female voice in public affairs and who, when civil war came, proved crucial to Charless campaign. The image of the Restoration queen as an irrelevant crone is replaced with Henrietta Maria as an influential phoenix queen. It is time to look again at this despised queen and judge if she is not in fact one of our most remarkable.Brilliantly written, mesmerising, superb scholarship and totally immersive... A total game changer KATE WILLIAMS, author of Rival QueensThis is revisionist history at its absolute best ANDREW ROBERTS author of ChurchillBeautifully written and endlessly fascinating ALEXANDER LARMAN author of The Crown in CrisisPopular history of the finest kind RONALD HUTTON author of The Witch
Binding: Paperback;496 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: BGH; Weight: 482 g; Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 34
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A mythbusting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZEHenrietta Maria, Charles Is queen, is the most reviled consort in British history. Condemned as the Popish brat of France and a notorious whore, she remains in popular memory the woman who turned the king Catholic so causing a civil war and a cruel and bigoted mother.Leanda de Lisle unpicks these myths to reveal a very different queen. We meet a new bride who enjoyed annoying her uptight husband, who was a passionate advocate for the female voice in public affairs and who, when civil war came, proved crucial to Charless campaign. The image of the Restoration queen as an irrelevant crone is replaced with Henrietta Maria as an influential phoenix queen. It is time to look again at this despised queen and judge if she is not in fact one of our most remarkable.Brilliantly written, mesmerising, superb scholarship and totally immersive... A total game changer KATE WILLIAMS, author of Rival QueensThis is revisionist history at its absolute best ANDREW ROBERTS author of ChurchillBeautifully written and endlessly fascinating ALEXANDER LARMAN author of The Crown in CrisisPopular history of the finest kind RONALD HUTTON author of The Witch
Binding: Paperback;496 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: BGH; Weight: 482 g; Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 34
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