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  A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria (Paperback) By (author) Katie Whitaker

  

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  Short Description for A Royal PassionFrom quarrels, passion, treason to execution, discover one of the great overlooked love stories of history.
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  • Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Published: 15 September 2011
  • Format: Paperback 384 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Biography: Royalty | European History | British & Irish History | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700
  • ISBN 13: 9780753828038 ISBN 10: 0753828030
  • Sales rank: 300,572

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• King Charles I was a Protestant. Henrietta Maria, a 15-year-old French princess, was a Catholic. Arranged for political gain, their marriage was a dangerous experiment, yet against the odds they fell in love. However Henrietta's Catholicism fuelled rumours of improper influence over a supposedly helpless king. Unable to trust his Parliament, Charles's fear for the queen's safety plummeted the country into civil war and forced her to flee abroad, never to see her husband again. They kept up a poignant correspondence but in 1649, the king was condemned as a traitor and publicly executed, thus ending an extraordinary partnership that influenced the course of history.