It was, from the start, a dangerous experiment. Charles I of
England was a Protestant, the fifteen-year-old French princess a
Catholic. The marriage was arranged for political purposes, and it
seemed a mismatch of personalities. But against the odds, the
reserved king and his naively vivacious bride fell passionately in
love, and for ten years England enjoyed an era of peace and
prosperity. When Charles became involved in war with Puritan
Scotland, popular hatred of Henrietta's Catholicism roused
Parliament to fury. As the opposition party embraced new values of
liberty and republicanism--the blueprint for the American War of
Independence and the French Revolution--Charles's fears for his
wife's safety drove him into a civil war that would cost him his
crown and his head. Rejecting centuries of hostile historical
tradition, prize-winning biographer Katie Whitaker uses a host of
original sources--including many unpublished manuscripts and
letters--to create an intimate portrait of a remarkable marriage.
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