Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 25 cm, ix, 147 pp, ills (some coloured), From the blurb - "Henrietta Maria was only 15 when she left France to marry Charles I. For many of his subjects she was his evil genius, a self-willed, interfering Roman Catholic, capable of ruining them all. For Charles himself she was an enchanting little creature, darting about his palaces with her courtiers, dwarves, monkeys and dogs, now chiding him for some imagined misdemeanour, now organising a surprise entertainment or a boat race on the Thames. Neither of them saw the growing troubles around them, but when civil war erupted, Henrietta threw herself wholeheartedly into fighting for the royal cause. She travelled to Holland in an attempt to pawn the Crown jewels, and even marched at the head of her own army. Her heroic efforts and hair-raising voyages read like an adventure story in their own right. Unable to save her husband, she fled to France, where she was something of an embarrassment at court, and she did not return to England until their son had been restored to the throne as Charles II. Dr Marshall is an award-winning professional historian and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. As in her previous books on Mary, Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie, she once again brings history to life, vividly recreating the key personalities at the English and French courts, and conveying the trauma of lives torn apart by the civil war." Very Good.

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Henrietta Maria : the intrepid queen.

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Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, first edition, 1990

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1990

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0112904793

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9780112904793

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Soft cover

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