- Publisher: History Press
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 198x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9780750999403
- Product code: 535889
The King's Smuggler
Jane Whorwood, Secret Agent to Charles I
John Fox New Paperback Illustrated
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Jane Whorwood’s contribution to the Royalist cause in the Civil War was largely forgotten during the Restoration period but in the 1640s she was a key confidante of Charles I, conveying information to supporters, aiding his concealment and escape and even smuggling gold to pay for his army. This biography reveals the importance of a hitherto little-known player in the drama.
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Jane Whorwood(1612-84) was one of Charles I's closest confidantes. The daughter of Scots courtiers at Whitehall and the wife of an Oxfordshire squire, when the court moved to Oxford in 1642, at the start of the Civil War, she helped the Royalist cause by spying for the king and smuggling at least three-quarters of a ton of gold to help pay for his army. When Charles was held captive by the Parliamentarians, from 1646 to 1649, she organised money, correspondence, several escape attempts, astrological advice and a ship to carry him to Holland. The king and she also had a wartime 'brief encounter'. After Charles's execution in 1649, Jane's marriage collapsed in one of the most public and acrimonious separation cases of the seventeenth century.
Using crucial evidence, John Fox provides a detailed biography of this extraordinary woman, a forgotten key player in the English Civil War.
Using crucial evidence, John Fox provides a detailed biography of this extraordinary woman, a forgotten key player in the English Civil War.
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Jane Whorwood’s contribution to the Royalist cause in the Civil War was largely forgotten during the Restoration period but in the 1640s she was a key confidante of Charles I, conveying information to supporters, aiding his concealment and escape and even smuggling gold to pay for his army. This biography reveals the importance of a hitherto little-known player in the drama.
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