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Image of the King: Charles 1 & 2

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"Remarkably and immensely readable...A just yet compassionate study of two complex, muddled, fissured human beings caught in the most difficult of crafts--kingship...It should not be missed by anyone interested in the Stuarts or in the personalities of Charles I and Charles II: indeed, any reader will be greatly stimulated by it."--J.H.

Plumb, New York Review of Books. Two kings, father and son...and yet, their personalities could hardly have differed more.

Through sources as varied as masks, statues, poems, medals, and contemporary written records, a picture of these Stuart monarchs, their characters and their politics, emerges.

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1842120794 / 9781842120798
Paperback / softback
23/11/2000
United Kingdom
English
211p., [16]p. of plates : ill.
24 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979.