TY  - BOOK
N2  - A dangerous experiment from the start, the marriage of Charles I of England, a Protestant, and the fifteen-year-old French princess, a Catholic, was arranged for political purposes, and it seemed a mismatch of personalities. But against the odds, the reserved king and his naïvely vivacious bride fell passionately in love, and for ten years England enjoyed peace and prosperity. But when Charles became involved in war with Puritan Scotland, popular hatred of Henrietta's Catholicism roused Parliament to fury. As the opposition party embraced new values of liberty and republicanism--the blueprint for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution--Charles's fears for his wife's safety drove him into a civil war that would cost him his crown and his head. Rejecting centuries of hostile historical tradition, biographer Katie Whitaker uses a host of original sources to create an intimate portrait of a remarkable marriage.--From publisher description.
AB  - A dangerous experiment from the start, the marriage of Charles I of England, a Protestant, and the fifteen-year-old French princess, a Catholic, was arranged for political purposes, and it seemed a mismatch of personalities. But against the odds, the reserved king and his naïvely vivacious bride fell passionately in love, and for ten years England enjoyed peace and prosperity. But when Charles became involved in war with Puritan Scotland, popular hatred of Henrietta's Catholicism roused Parliament to fury. As the opposition party embraced new values of liberty and republicanism--the blueprint for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution--Charles's fears for his wife's safety drove him into a civil war that would cost him his crown and his head. Rejecting centuries of hostile historical tradition, biographer Katie Whitaker uses a host of original sources to create an intimate portrait of a remarkable marriage.--From publisher description.
T1  - A royal passion :the turbulent marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France /
DA  - c2010.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Whitaker, Katie,
ET  - 1st ed.
CN  - DA396.A22
CN  - DA396.A22
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.,
PP  - New York :
PY  - c2010.
ID  - 338132
KW  - Married people
KW  - Interfaith marriage
KW  - Queens
KW  - Princesses
SN  - 9780393060799
SN  - 0393060799
TI  - A royal passion :the turbulent marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France /
ER  -