Cavalier Queen
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  • Published: 1 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409023333
  • Imprint: Preface Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 592

Cavalier Queen

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1 Nov 2011
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23 Feb 2023
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18 Oct 2012
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Gripping, passionate and intense, the story of the English Civil Wars, through the eyes of Charles I's queen, Henrietta Maria.

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She was the Princess Diana of her day.

She loved clothes and jewels and parties. She had exquisite taste in interior design. She seemed destined to reign as one of England's most glamorous queens, famed for the beautiful palaces she designed and decorated.

Instead, Princess Henrietta Maria of France became caught up in the Civil War, one of the greatest cataclysms in English history. Swept from her life of luxury into the squalid brutality of battle and the loneliness of exile, her heart was torn by the two men she loved - her husband, tragic Charles I and charismatic Harry Jermyn, who designed and built most of London's West End, including the street which bears his name.

This is their story.
  • Published: 1 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409023333
  • Imprint: Preface Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 592
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About the author

Fiona Mountain

Fiona Mountain was a press officer at BBC Radio 1 for ten years. She is the author of three previous novels, but only returned to writing after the birth of her four children. She lives in the Cotswolds with them and her husband, a musician. She is already working on her next novel, based on the life of Charles I's queen, Henrietta Maria.

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Praise for Cavalier Queen

A wonderfully extravagant and engrossing saga told in an engaging and effective style. Highly recommended

4.5 stars Bookbag

Dazzling and sumptuous...Cavalier Queen, with its magical mix of the personal and the historical, puts romance into a royal marriage, passion into a proud princess and fresh drama into the demise of a doomed and tragic king. A thrilling and romantic story from a talented new author in the world of historical fiction.

Lancashire Evening Post

Henrietta Maria lived through turbulent times as the country plunged into civil war and 17th century England comes to colourful life through the eyes of an author to watch

Choice

This is the sort of history lesson we can get on board with. Set in the 17th century, Cavalier Queen charts the moving true story of Queen Henrietta ... Fascinating, gripping and educational

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