King Charles II
King Charles II
Antonia Fraser
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979
ISBN 0297775715
Born and raised at court during the height of the early Stuart years in England, Charles was little more than a boy when his father, Charles I, found himself at the centre of the civil wars, which led to his defeat and execution in 1649. On his father's death Charles was King in name only, and spent years of exile, poverty and humiliation in Europe.
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