The White KingCharles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
Leanda de Lisle
Reviled as a tyrant and canonized as a martyr, Charles I remains one of the most controversial of English monarchs. Basing her research on previously unseen royal correspondence, Leanda de Lisle follows the tragic career of a flawed king, sets the Civil War in the context of the wider European conflict of the Thirty Years' War, and highlights the crucial and often underestimated role of Charles’s wife Henrietta Maria.