The first accessible biography in 50 years of one of the most dramatic and bloody reigns in history
Leanda de Lisle is the highly acclaimed author of several bestselling and prize-winning books on the Tudors and Stuarts including Tudor- The Family Story and White King- The Tragedy of Charles I. She writes and speaks on historical matters for TV, radio and publications including The Times, the Spectator and History Today.
A revelation... White King is that rare thing, a page-turning
history that gently but insistently also asks provocative questions
about a period on which our opinions have been all too fixed.
Charles does not emerge with his reputation restored, but he
emerges whole
*Financial Times*
Fascinating
*Evening Standard*
Humane and scholarly... De Lisle's deeply and originally researched
book brings Charles alive not in kingly isolation but as a father
and a husband. Both biography and subject deserve our fullest
attention
*Mail on Sunday*
Engaging, well-researched and beautifully written... Emphatically
not another book about the civil wars, this instead offers a
nuanced and detailed examination of one of our most complex
monarchs. It is probably the definitive modern work about Charles
I
*Observer*
De Lisle, who has long been an original voice in popular Tudor
studies, is generous to Charles, but too sharp a reader of evidence
to ignore his flaws... Pellucid, compelling and enriched by fresh
evidence... Sympathetic but scrupulous to the last
*Sunday Telegraph*
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