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Book Synopsis The Personal Rule of Charles II, 1681-85 by : Grant Tapsell
Download or read book The Personal Rule of Charles II, 1681-85 written by Grant Tapsell and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1681 until his death in 1685 Charles II ruled without a Parliament, and his personal rule forms the central subject of this book. The author discusses the nature of the Whig and Tory parties at this crucial period of their formation as political parties, showing how they coped with the absence of a parliamentary forum.
Book Synopsis A Character of King Charles the Second: by : George Savile Marquis of Halifax
Download or read book A Character of King Charles the Second: written by George Savile Marquis of Halifax and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape by : Charles Spencer
Download or read book To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape written by Charles Spencer and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history?
Download or read book The King's Bed written by Don Jordan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends, courtiers and literally hundreds of servants and soldiers. Gossip radiated throughout the kingdom. Charles spent most of his wealth and his intellect on gaining and keeping the company of women, from the lowest sections of society such as the actress Nell Gwyn to the aristocratic Louise de Kérouaille. Some of Charles' women played their part in the affairs of state, colouring the way the nation was run. Don Jordan and Michael Walsh take us inside Charles' palace, where we will meet court favourites, amusing confidants, advisors jockeying for political power, mistresses past and present as well as key figures in his inner circle such as his 'pimpmasters' and his personal pox doctor. The astonishing private life of Charles II reveals much about the man he was and why he lived and ruled as he did. The King's Bed tells the compelling story of a king ruled by his passion.
Book Synopsis The French Mistress by : Susan Holloway Scott
Download or read book The French Mistress written by Susan Holloway Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The King's Favorite-a new novel based on a dazzling and decadent true story of Restoration England. The daughter of a poor nobleman, Louise leaves the French countryside for the court of King Louis XIV, where she must not only please the tastes of the jaded king, but serve as a spy for France. With few friends, many rivals, and ever-shifting loyalties, Louise learns the perils of her new role. Yet she is too ambitious to be a pawn in the intrigues of others. With the promise of riches, power, and even the love of a king, Louise creates her own destiny in a dance of intrigue between two monarchs-and two countries.
Book Synopsis Memorials of Shakespeare; or, Sketches of his character and genius, by various writers, collected, with a prefatory and concluding essay, and notes, by N. Drake by : Nathan Drake
Download or read book Memorials of Shakespeare; or, Sketches of his character and genius, by various writers, collected, with a prefatory and concluding essay, and notes, by N. Drake written by Nathan Drake and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The King's Revenge by : Michael Walsh
Download or read book The King's Revenge written by Michael Walsh and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years. Men who had once been among the most powerful figures in England ended up on the scaffold, on the run, or in fear of the assassin's bullet. History has painted the regicides and their supporters as fanatical Puritans, but among them were remarkable men, including John Milton and Oliver Cromwell. Don Jordan and Michael Walsh bring these remarkable figures and this astonishing story vividly to life an engrossing, bloody tale of plots, spies, betrayal, fear and ambition.
Book Synopsis The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 by : Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon
Download or read book The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 written by Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mistresses written by Linda Porter and published by Picador. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was 'addicted to women', and throughout his long reign a great many succumbed to his charms. Clever, urbane and handsome, Charles presided over a hedonistic court, in which licence and licentiousness prevailed.Mistresses is the story of the women who shared Charles's bed, each of whom wielded influence on both the politics and cultural life of the country. From the young king-in-exile's first mistress and mother to his first child, Lucy Walter, to the promiscuous and ill-tempered courtier, Barbara Villiers. From Frances Teresa Stuart, 'the prettiest girl in the world' to history's most famous orange-seller, 'pretty, witty' Nell Gwynn and to her fellow-actress, Moll Davis, who bore the last of the king's fifteen illegitimate children. From Louise de Kéroualle, the French aristocrat - and spy for Louis XIV - to the sexually ambiguous Hortense Mancini. Here, too, is the forlorn and humiliated Queen Catherine, the Portuguese princess who was Charles's childless queen. Drawing on a wide variety of original sources, including material in private archives, Linda Porter paints a vivid picture of these women and of Restoration England, an era that was both glamorous and sordid.
Book Synopsis The Loves of Charles II by : Jean Plaidy
Download or read book The Loves of Charles II written by Jean Plaidy and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From princesses to country girls to actresses…the loves of Charles II come to life. Ten years after Charles I was deposed and executed, his son, Charles II, regains the throne after many years in exile. Charles is determined not only to restore the monarchy but also to revive a society that has suffered under many years of Puritan rule, when everything from theater to Christmas festivals was illegal. As king, Charles II throws himself into the gaiety of court life, becoming a patron of the arts and a consummate lover of women. He first secures a strong dynastic alliance by marrying Catherine of Braganza, a shy, plain Portuguese princess who falls in love with her handsome husband and brings him great wealth, but can never give him the son he longs for. For many years, his “untitled queen” is a bold and sensual older woman—Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine—whose husband is routinely paid to look the other way. But when the politically ambitious Lady Castlemaine becomes too powerful, she is replaced by Louise de Kéroualle, a baby-faced French noblewoman who may have been sent to Charles’s court as a spy. His other great love, and Louise’s rival, is Nell Gwyn, a stage actress who rises from the streets of London to become the king’s favorite and a hero of the working class. Court intrigue and affairs of the heart weave together in this unforgettable page-turner.
Download or read book Paper Bullets written by Harold M. Weber and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority—especially the monarchy—and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics—the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the "merry monarch," and the trial and execution of Stephen College—Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber's study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility—conflicts that helped shape the modern state.
Book Synopsis The Mistresses of Charles II by : Brian Masters
Download or read book The Mistresses of Charles II written by Brian Masters and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis “The” Lives of Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Under King Charles II and King James II; Sir Dudley North, Commissioner of the Customs, and Afterwards of the Treasury, to King Charles II; and John North, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Clerk of the Closet to King Charles II by : Roger North
Download or read book “The” Lives of Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Under King Charles II and King James II; Sir Dudley North, Commissioner of the Customs, and Afterwards of the Treasury, to King Charles II; and John North, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Clerk of the Closet to King Charles II written by Roger North and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Biographia Scoticana; Or a Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies ... from Mr. Patrick Hamilton, who was Born about the Year of Our Lord 1503 ... to Mr. James Renwick, who was Executed at Edinburgh, Feb. 1688. Together with a Succinct Account of the Lives of Other Seven Eminent Divines, and Sir R. Hamilton of Preston ... Also an Appendix, Containing a Short Historical Hint of the Wicked Lives of Some of the Most Remarkable Apostates and Bloody Persecutors in Scotland, from the Reformation to the Revolution. By J. Howie. Third Edition, Corrected and Enlarged by :
Download or read book Biographia Scoticana; Or a Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies ... from Mr. Patrick Hamilton, who was Born about the Year of Our Lord 1503 ... to Mr. James Renwick, who was Executed at Edinburgh, Feb. 1688. Together with a Succinct Account of the Lives of Other Seven Eminent Divines, and Sir R. Hamilton of Preston ... Also an Appendix, Containing a Short Historical Hint of the Wicked Lives of Some of the Most Remarkable Apostates and Bloody Persecutors in Scotland, from the Reformation to the Revolution. By J. Howie. Third Edition, Corrected and Enlarged written by and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Library for the people. (Division 1). The wonders of nature and art. (Division 2). (A display of the arts of life and society). (Division 3). Worthies of the United Kingdom. (Division 4) [entitled] The chimney corner companion by : Library
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Book Synopsis The Historians' History of the World by : Henry Smith Williams
Download or read book The Historians' History of the World written by Henry Smith Williams and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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