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Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660.

Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration, Antonia Fraser's lively and fascinating biography captures all the vitality of the man and the expansiveness of the age. 'Detailed, sympathetic, and admirably readable' ECONOMIST

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
075381403X / 9780753814031
Paperback / softback
08/08/2007
United Kingdom
English
xvi, 670 p., [32] p. of plates : ill.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979.
Antonia Fraser is one the world's best known historians and was made CBE in 1999 THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII sold over 150,000 copies in hardback alone To be reissued in brand new packaging to match the paperback edition of Antonia Fraser's latest bestseller, MARIE ANTOINETTE Film rights to MARIE ANTOINETTE have been sold to Sofia Coppola, daughter of Francis Ford Coppola Antonia Fraser's books have won many awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Wolfson Award for History 'Well planned, thorough, superbly illustrated, well produced...Lady Antonia at her best' DAILY TELEG
Antonia Fraser is one the world's best known historians and was made CBE in 1999 THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII sold over 150,000 copies in hardback alone To be reissued in brand new packaging to match the paperback edition of Antonia Fraser's latest bestseller, MARIE ANTOINETTE Film rights to MARIE ANTOINETTE have been sold to Sofia Coppola, daughter of Francis Ford Coppola Antonia Fraser's books have won many awards, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Wolfson Award for History 'Well planned, thorough, superbly illustrated, well produced...Lady Antonia at her best' DAILY TELEG 1DBKE England, BGH Biography: historical, political & military, BGR Biography: royalty, HBJD1 British & Irish history, HBLH Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700