Royal Renegades - 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 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Porter, Porter Linda
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781447267607
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-6760-7
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, European History, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, History and Archaeology, C 1600 To C 1700, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), c 1640 to c 1649, English Civil War, c 1650 to c 1659