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From the New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the tragic story of Charles I, his warrior queen, Britain's civil wars and the trial for his life.
Less than forty years after England's golden age under Elizabeth I, the country was at war with itself. Split between loyalty to the Crown or to Parliament, war raged on English soil. The English Civil War would set family against family, friend against friend, and its casualties were immenseâ??a greater proportion of the population died than in World War I.
At the head of the disintegrating kingdom was King Charles I. In this vivid portraitâ??informed by previously unseen manuscripts, including royal correspondence between the king and his queenâ??Leanda de Lisle depicts a man who was principled and brave, but fatally blinkered.
Charles never understood his own subjects or court intrigue. At the heart of the drama were the Janus-faced cousins who befriended and betrayed himâ??Henry Holland, his peacocking servant whose brother, the New England colonialist Robert Warwick, engineered the king's fall; and Lucy Carlisle, the magnetic 'last Boleyn girl' and faithless favorite of Charles's maligned and fearless queen.
This is a good read on the most part, though occasionally my attention began to wander. Although this isn’t a scholarly text, it did at times read a little dry. Despite these minor faults, this is well worth reading.
The author does well in bringing Charles I to life in her narrative. The king’s relationships with his family are particularly interesting to read. His last meeting with his youngest children is rather moving. I’ve always been sympathetic towards Charles. ( )
This was interesting and detailed. The author has bias that she never attempts to separate from her work. She doesn't seem to understand the difference between 'race' and 'ethnicity'. At the time that this applies 'race' as a concept hadn't yet developed. Oh there was horrid antiblackness-Queen Henrietta performed in Black face in a horribly racist and denigrating play. So the idea that Black people were less than existed. It just wasn't yet formalized into what we would today recognize as 'race'. That being said white people in the UK are all the same race. White Irish people aren't a separate race from White Scottish people ( )
This was an enjoyable and captivating read of a man historians often depict incorrectly. While you'll get distracted by details the casual writing style make it a read that anyone can tackle. ( )
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It was observed … that his majesty on that [coronation] day was clothed in white … and this some looked on as an ill presage that the king laying aside his purple, the robe of Majesty, should clothe himself in white, the robe of innocence, as if thereby it were foreordained that he should divest himself of that Regal majesty that would have kept him from affront and scorn. Peter Heylyn, The Life of William Laud
This Dreadful Deadman, intends nothing I tell thee, but confusion to thy long continued happiness, thy laws and liberties … The White King and the Dreadful Deadman are all one. William Lilly, A Prophecy of the White King and Dreadful Dead Man Explained
As the King's Body was brought out of St George's Hall, the sky was serene and clear, but presently it began to snow, and fell so fast as by the time they came to the west end of the Royal Chapel the black velvet pall was all white (the colour of innocency) being covered over with snow. So went the white king to his grave, in the 48th year of his age. Sir Thomas Herbert, Memoirs
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The title of this book - White King - is drawn from a sobriquet used by Charles's contemporaries. (Author's Note)
Monsieur de Preux considered the request of the two Englishmen standing at the old eastern gate of the Louvre. (Preface)
Charles was fourteen when Buckingham entered his life as James's new favourite.
Unlike his father, Charles was not a wordsmith. (Postscript)
Buckingham's embassy to France in 1625 and the trade war with France of the following year provide the complex political background to a number of fictional stories and gossip, often taken as fact, which helped inspire Dumas' The Three Musketeers.
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The tales of his vilified queen, of crowd-pleasing politicians and religious terror, of foreign engagements and civil wars, of the suffering of ordinary people, the hopes vested in a different future and the shadow of a coming genocide, make this an epic story for our times. (Author's Note)
It had been painted in 1623, the year she had first seen him in the Louvre; it was a likeness neither of a martyr nor of a murderer, but of a 'venturous knight' who still had his dreams to fulfil, and all his great adventures before him.
And far from being deadly enemies, Buckingham remained on good terms with Lucy 'Milady' Carlisle, although the same cannot be said of his relations, who detested her. (Appendix)
From the New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the tragic story of Charles I, his warrior queen, Britain's civil wars and the trial for his life.
Less than forty years after England's golden age under Elizabeth I, the country was at war with itself. Split between loyalty to the Crown or to Parliament, war raged on English soil. The English Civil War would set family against family, friend against friend, and its casualties were immenseâ??a greater proportion of the population died than in World War I.
At the head of the disintegrating kingdom was King Charles I. In this vivid portraitâ??informed by previously unseen manuscripts, including royal correspondence between the king and his queenâ??Leanda de Lisle depicts a man who was principled and brave, but fatally blinkered.
Charles never understood his own subjects or court intrigue. At the heart of the drama were the Janus-faced cousins who befriended and betrayed himâ??Henry Holland, his peacocking servant whose brother, the New England colonialist Robert Warwick, engineered the king's fall; and Lucy Carlisle, the magnetic 'last Boleyn girl' and faithless favorite of Charles's maligned and fearless queen.
The tragedy of Charles I was that he fell not as a consequence of vice or wickedness, but of his human flaws and misjudgments. The White King is a story for our times, of populist politicians and religious war, of manipulative media and the reshaping of nations. For Charles it ended on the scaffold, condemned as a traitor and murderer, yet lauded also as a martyr, his reign destined to sow the seeds of democracy in Britain and the New
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The author does well in bringing Charles I to life in her narrative. The king’s relationships with his family are particularly interesting to read. His last meeting with his youngest children is rather moving. I’ve always been sympathetic towards Charles. (