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 thrilling biography
*The Daily Telegraph*
Competent, intelligent, fun... de Lisle...has a visceral
understanding of the complex emotions that swirled inside Henrietta
Maria
*The Times, *Books of the Year**
A shrewd and elegant reassessment of Charles's I consort and
widow... She was certainly a fighter
*Spectator, *Books of the Year**
Brilliantly written, mesmerising, superb scholarship and totally
immersive . . . a total game changer
*KATE WILLIAMS, author of Rival Queens: the Betrayal of Mary Queen
of Scotts*
With grace and sensitivity, de Lisle cuts through the misogyny to
reveal a different Henrietta Maria . . . De Lisle understands that
history is a story of people; she possesses a visceral
understanding of the emotions that swirled inside Henrietta Maria .
. . she was not England's greatest queen, but she was probably the
most remarkable
*The Times * Book of the Week **
De Lisle has made a speciality of bringing Tudors and Stuarts back
to blazing life... The result is deeply satisfying and makes an
excellent companion to her earlier much-admired biography of
Charles I, White King
*Sunday Times*
A captivating, richly detailed historical tale that shines a light
on the hidden genius of an extraordinary woman
*Literary Review*
de Lisle turns her attention to [Charles I's] wife, Henrietta
Maria, similarly shading with nuance a character who can sometimes
be reduced to primary-colour simplicity
*History Today*
A glorious resurrection of one of the most misrepresented queens of
England . . . finally, thanks to Leanda de Lisle's meticulous
research, she has a biography worthy of her fascinating life
*AMANDA FOREMAN, author of A World on Fire*
Henrietta Maria's remarkable life is recounted with gusto in this
sharp, sparky book... it makes vivid use of recent work on her
court and queenship, brings people and personalities to the fore
and will be a particular delight to those new to the period
*Spectator*
Leanda de Lisle has brilliantly overturned nearly four centuries of
misogynistic, religiously bigoted and politically motivated myths
about Henrietta Maria, who now emerges as a fascinating, fearless,
but ill-fated woman, wife and mother. This is revisionist history
at its absolute best
*ANDREW ROBERTS, author of George III: The Life of Britain's Most
Misunderstood Monarch*
A formidable historian
*Country Life*
With supreme skill and style, Leanda de Lisle provides not only a
welcome revision of Henrietta Maria's reputation, but also a
revival of her fierce energy and a reanimation of the entire age. A
superb and vital biography
*JESSIE CHILDS, author of The Siege of Loyalty House*
A captivating, richly detailed historical tale that shines a light
on the hidden genius of an extraordinary woman
*Woman's Own*
This is popular history of the finest kind, vivid, immediate, well
researched and telling a compelling story. It is also serves the
first duty of biography, by making its subject more wholly
understandable than before
*RONALD HUTTON, author of The Witch*
Leanda de Lisle's beautifully written and endlessly fascinating new
biography of Henrietta Maria brings one of the 17th century's most
misunderstood women to glorious life . . . This salutary and
important book restores her to her rightful place as one of the
most important figures of her time
*ALEXANDER LARMAN, author of The Crown in Crisis*
If the Stuarts are having their time in the sun at last, then
Leanda de Lisle is one of the reasons they are. Masterful and
pleasurable about a transformative century and a neglected,
underestimated woman's role in it -- what more can one want from
history?
*SARAH FRASER, author of The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and
Death of Henry Stuart*
A fascinating book about a fascinating woman -- Henrietta Maria's
story deserves to be better known, and this book brings her
completely alive
*FRANCES QUINN, author of The Smallest Man*
Henietta Maria's perspective allows this book to become something
much more than mere analysis of politics and war. De Lisle
understands that history is a story of people; she possesses a
visceral understanding of the emotions that swirled inside
Henrietta Maria
*The Times, *Book of the Week**
[A] thrilling story... a revisionist life of one of the most
compelling and controversial women in British history... a book,
like a life, should be measured against its own mission. And in
this - to tell the story of Henrietta Maria's extraordinary life
from her own perspective - Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her
subject could not
*The Critic*
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