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Royal Renegades

by Linda Porter

First published 2016

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4.0(213)

Royal Renegades follows the six children of Charles I and Henrietta Maria who survived into the English Civil Wars. Charles, Mary, James, Elizabeth, Henry and Henrietta Anne began life inside an affectionate but politically disastrous royal family. War divided the household between besieged courts, parliamentary custody and continental exile, while their father’s execution in 1649 transformed the children into dependants, prisoners and rival claimants.

Porter traces their experiences through the Commonwealth and the restoration of Charles II in 1660. Mary supported her brothers from the Dutch Republic; James and Henry became soldiers abroad; Elizabeth died in captivity; and Henrietta Anne entered the French royal family. The book uses the siblings’ disrupted lives to show the Civil Wars as a dynastic and family catastrophe whose consequences continued after the monarchy returned.

Historical Periods

Execution of Charles I1649 CE Commonwealth and Protectorate1649–1660 CE Restoration1660–1685 CE First English Civil War1642–1646 CE Third English Civil War1650–1651 CE

Genres

Court & Political Fiction

Historical people

Charles II of England1630–1685 Charles I of England1600–1649 James II of England Henrietta Anne Stuart1644–1670 Henrietta Maria of France1609–1669

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