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From the New York Times best-selling publisher and professional of narrative nonfiction comes the tragic history of Charles I, his warrior queen, Britain's civil wars, and the trial for his life. Significantly less than 40 years after England's gold era under Elizabeth I, the united states was at battle with itself. Split between devotion to the Crown or even to Parliament, battle raged on British soil. The British Civil Warfare would place family against family, friend against friend, and its own casualties were immense - a greater proportion of the populace died than in World Warfare I. At the head of the disintegrating kingdom was King Charles I. In such a vivid portrait - prepared by previously unseen manuscripts, including royal correspondence between the king and his queen - Leanda de Lisle depicts a guy who was principled and daring but fatally blinkered. Charles never understood his own topics or courtroom intrigue. In the centre of the episode were the Janus-faced cousins who befriended and betrayed him - Henry Holland, his peacocking servant whose brother, the New England colonialist Robert Warwick, engineered the king's fall season; and Lucy Carlisle, the magnetic "previous Boleyn girl" and faithless favorite of Charles' maligned and fearless queen. The tragedy of Charles I had been that he fell not as a consequence of vice or wickedness but of his individual defects and misjudgments. The White King is a tale for our times, of populist politicians and religious battle, of manipulative media and the reshaping of countries. For Charles it finished on the scaffold, condemned as a traitor and murderer yet lauded also as a martyr, his reign destined to sow the seed products of democracy in Britain and the brand new World.

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