The Image of the King: Charles I and Charles II

by Richard Lawrence Ollard (Author)

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  1993

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  Charles I and Charles II are the two most famous Stuart kings. Father and son, their personalities could hardly have been more different. The character of Charles I is crucial to our understanding of the English Civil War - the most far-reaching political upheaval in the country's history. Charles II is one of the figures with which the nation enjoys identifying itself. This double biography is also an account of a great transition in English history.

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  Paperback
  2000

  $5.28

  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.