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
“Rich, perceptive, nuanced and creative, this first full-scale biography gives one of Britain's best but least-known queens her due.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)The general perception of Kather
Evaluates the rivalry between the fertile Stewarts and barren Tudors as critical to the British Isles of the 16th-century, tracing three generations of feuding that led to the violent competition for
The war between the fertile Stewarts and the barren Tudors was crucial to the history of the British Isles in the sixteenth century. The legendary struggle, most famously embodied by the relationship
