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Barely forty years after the Englands golden age under Elizabeth, the country was at war with itself, split between loyalty to the Crown and Parliament, with armies raised in Scotland and Ireland, and fighters arriving from Europe to wage war on English soil for the last time in Englands history. The English Civil War would set family against family, friend against friend, and its casualties were immensea greater proportion of the population than in World War I. England had become a failed state.
At the head of the disintegrating kingdom was the figure of the king: Charles I. In this vivid portraitnewly informed by previously unseen manuscripts, including royal correspondence between the king and his queen, some of it written in codeLeanda de Lisle depicts a man who was not cruel enough for his cruel times. He would not persecute his opponents in the bloody style of his Tudor antecedents, or throw his servants to the wolves to save his own skin in the time-honored royal style. He was tutored by his father in the rights and obligations of kings, but had none of his fathers political subtlety and experience in survival. In a court of remarkable women he was happily marriedbut to a French Catholic princess, which caused consternation to his protestant subjects. Principled and high minded, he would pay a terrible price for the personal honor he so valued, and for having enemies more ruthless than he was. Nothing, however, would reflect on his character as much as the scene at his terrible death, speaking on the scaffold as a martyr of the people.
In his own destruction Charles did not sow the seeds of the monarchys destruction but its rebirth. Englands revolution lasted eleven unhappy years and the Crown was then restored, to national rejoicing. Today England enjoys rule by parliament and monarch while the Church of England has the bishops Charles was determined to preserve. More radical religious experimenters took their faith to the New World and the seeds of a republic, leaving England to mend its wounds and restore its fortunes and future as the worlds preeminent constitutional monarchy.
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Less than forty years after the golden age of Elizabeth I, England was at war with itself. The bloody, devastating civil wars set family against family, friend against friend. At the head of this disintegrating kingdom was Charles I. His rule would change the face of the monarchy for ever.
Charles Is reign 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 spoiled and silly: the cause of his ruin.
In this new portrait informed by previously unseen manuscripts, including letters between the king and his queen Leanda de Lisle uncovers a Charles I who was principled and brave, but also fatally blinkered. He is revealed as a complex man who pays the price for bringing radical change; Henrietta Maria as a warrior queen and political player as impressive as any Tudor. Here too are the cousins who befriended and betrayed them: the peacocking Henry Holland, whose brother engineered the kings fall; and the magnetic last Boleyn girl, Lucy Carlisle.
This is a tragic story for our times, of populist politicians and religious war, of a new media and the reshaping of nations, in which women vied with men for power. For Charles it ended on the scaffold. Condemned as a traitor and murderer, he was also heralded as a martyr: his reign destined to sow the seeds of democracy across Britain and the New World.
Leanda de Lisle is the highly acclaimed author of three books on the Tudors and Stuarts, including the bestselling The Sisters Who Would be Queen and Tudor: The Family Story. A former weekly columnist for the Spectator, Guardian and Daily Express, she contributes to numerous national publications. She lives in Leicestershire.
After Elizabeth: The Death of Elizabeth and the Coming of King James
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey
Tudor: The Family Story
James I and VI, Paul van Somer, c. 1620 (Photo: Royal Collection Trust / Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, with Sir John Harington, in the Hunting Field, Robert Peake the Elder, 1603 The Met Museum, New York / Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1944
Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen The Weiss Gallery, London
Philip IV, Diego Rodrguez de Silva y Velzquez, 162324 Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas / Algur H. Meadows Collection
Cardinal Richelieu, Philippe de Champaigne, 1642 Museum of Fine Arts, Strasbourg (Photo: Leemage / UIG via Getty Images)
George Villiers, Peter Paul Rubens, c. 17th century Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy / Bridgeman Images
Triumphant Death chases Londoners from their city, from A rod for run-awayes Gods tokens, artist unknown, c. 1625 (Photo: Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo)
Marie de Medici landing at Marseilles, Peter Paul Rubens, 1623 Louvre
Charles I, Peter Oliver, c. 162532 (Photo: Royal Collection Trust / Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
Henrietta Maria, John Hoskins, c. 1632 (Photo: Royal Collection Trust / Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, Daniel Mytens the elder, 1633 National Trust Images
Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, studio of Daniel Mytens, c. 163233 National Portrait Gallery, London
Henrietta Maria as St Catherine, Anthony Van Dyck, c. 1630s Philip Mould & Company
Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, Adriaen Hanneman, c. 166065 Minneapolis Institute of Arts / Bridgeman Images
John Pym, by or after Edward Bower, c. 1640 National Portrait Gallery, London
Louis XIII at the Siege of La Rochelle, French School, c. 17th century La Sorbonne, Paris / Bridgeman Images
Charles I, Anthony Van Dyck, c. 1635 (Photo: Royal Collection Trust / Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de Chevreuse, as Diana the Huntress, attributed to Claure Deruet, 1627 Castle Museum, Versailles (Photo: Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)
Charles I, Henrietta Maria and Charles II when Prince of Wales dining in public, Gerrit Houckgeest, 1635 (Photo: Royal Collection Trust / Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
An Allegory of Marriage, Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), 1576 (Photo RMN-Grand Palais, Muse du Louvre / Stphane Marchalle)
The Five Eldest Children of Charles I, Anthony Van Dyck, 1637 (Photo: Royal Collection Trust / Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
Charles I, studio Anthony Van Dyck, c. 1636 The Weiss Gallery, London
William II, Prince of Orange, and his bride, Mary Stuart, Anthony Van Dyck, 1641. Photo courtesy of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Atrocities in Ireland, from The Teares of Ireland by James Cranford, Wenceslaus Hollar, c. 164246. Photo Courtesy of National Library of Ireland, Dublin [PD 2133 TX]
The execution of Strafford, Wenceslaus Hollar, c. 164177. Photo The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Canada
The Chair organ, Robert Dallam, Tewkesbury Abbey Martin Goetze and Dominic Gwynn Ltd
The death of Boy at Marston Moor, 1644. Photo Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Gerrit Van Honthorst, c. 1630s56 National Trust Images / John Gibbons
The fingernail of Thomas Holland Courtesy of Tyburn Convent
The saddle used by the King at the Battle to Naseby, Private Collection. Photo courtesy of Graeme Rimer
The battlefield at Naseby, Robert Streeter, c. 1645
James II & VII, Princess Elizabeth and Henry, Duke of Gloucester, John Hoskins, c. 1640s The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Anne of Austria, queen consort of France, with Louis XIV as a child, French school, 17th century. Photo: Christophel Fine Art / UIG via Getty Images
Mary, Princess Royal, studio of Gerrit van Honthorst, c. 1655 Philip Mould & Company
Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Cooper, c. 1653 Philip Mould & Company
Thomas Fairfax, circle of Robert Walker, 17th century. Photo: Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library / Alamy Stock Photo
Charles I at the time of his trial, after Edward Bower, 17th century Philip Mould & Company
Charles I, miniature portrait with mica overlays, artist unknown, c. 16501700 Carisbrooke Castle Museum Trust
Pearl earring owned by King Charles I, removed from the Kings ear after his execution, 160010 The Portland Collection, Harley Gallery, Welbeck Estate, Nottinghamshire / Bridgeman Images
Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria as a Widow, artist unknown, c. 1650s. Courtesy of The Walters Art Museum (CC0 1.0)
St Georges chapel, Windsor Castle, Josep Renalias, 2008 Josep Renalias (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Frontispiece of the Eikon Basilike, Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649. Photo The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Canada
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