![]() ![]() ![]() The vicissitudes of the period are the world of The Three Musketeers readers of Dumas will be pleased to find that Milady de Winter appears here, unmasked as the historical Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle.Ĭontemporaries called Charles the “White King”. Was this elusive monarch a saint or a foolish sinner? His obstinacy certainly made a settlement impossible to reach after the Civil Wars broke out, first in Scotland in 1638, which ultimately led the English Parliament to seize political control. He succeeded his father in March 1625, two months before he married the sister of Louis XIII of France, Henrietta Maria, nine years his junior, but an astute and intelligent independent woman. Born in Scotland in 1600, he died on the scaffold at his palace of Whitehall in January 1649. THIS biography explores the life of the second Stuart King of England, Charles I. ![]()
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