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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.
The reign of Charles I is one of the most dramatic in history. Yet Charles the man remains elusive. Too often he is recalled as weak and stupid, his wife, Henrietta Maria, as spoilt and silly: the cause of his ruin. This has bred not only contempt, but also indifference. Todays readers have preferred the well-trodden reigns of the Tudors.
But 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. Here too is the story of the cousins who befriended and betrayed them: Henry Holland, the kings closest body servant, whose brother engineered the kings fall, and Lucy Carlisle, immortalized in Alexandre Dumass Three Musketeers as the scheming Lady de Winter.
Epic in scale, White King is also a very human story, about the choices people make, and of the family man behind the image of the white king, who on his execution was reviled as a traitor and murderer by some, but lauded by others as the peoples martyr.
