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Waterstones Blog – Power and Prejudice: Leanda de Lisle Unwinds the Myth of the White King, Charles I

Posted on 12th January 2018 by Tamise

Thanks to Martha Greengrass from Waterstones for letting me know about this article that Leanda de Lisle has written about Charles I for Waterstones.

Waterstones – Power and Prejudice: Leanda de Lisle Unwinds the Myth of the White King, Charles I

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‘England’s Forgotten Queen’ – Syon, Tower of London and Framlingham Castle

Posted on 12th January 2018 by Tamise

Three of the filming locations for ‘England’s Forgotten Queen’ were:

Syon Park – where Jane found out she was Queen.

Tower of London – where Jane was both Queen and prisoner.

Framlingham Castle – where Mary raised her standard against Jane.

Find out more about them:

Syon

Syon Park

Tower of London

The Tower of London

Framlingham Castle

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Books 2018 – on sale today – White King: Charles I – Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle

Posted on 11th January 2018 by Tamise

11th January 2018 – White King: Charles I – Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle

‘Drawing on lost royal letters from a closed archive, White King introduces us to Charles I as the monarch at the heart of a story for our times: a tale of populist politicians and the fall of the mighty, of religious hatreds and civil war, of the power of a new media and a maligned queen.

The reign of Charles I is one of the most dramatic in history. Yet Charles the man remains elusive. Too often he is recalled as weak and stupid, his wife, Henrietta Maria, as spoilt and silly: the cause of his ruin. This has bred not only contempt, but also indifference. Today’s readers have preferred the well-trodden reigns of the Tudors.

But Charles is revealed here as a complex and fascinating man who pays the price for bringing radical change; Henrietta Maria is a warrior queen and political player as extraordinary as any Tudor. Here too is the story of the cousins who befriended and betrayed them: Henry Holland, the king’s closest body servant, whose brother engineered the king’s fall, and Lucy Carlisle, immortalized in Alexandre Dumas’s Three Musketeers as the scheming Lady de Winter.

Epic in scale, White King is also a very human story, about the choices people make, and of the family man behind the image of the ‘white’ king, who on his execution was reviled as a traitor and murderer by some, but lauded by others as the people’s martyr.’

From Amazon.co.uk

Further details – Amazon.co.uk

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Competition – Win ‘White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr’ and ‘Tudor: The Family Story’ by Leanda de Lisle

Posted on 10th January 2018 by Tamise

To celebrate the broadcast of ‘England’s Forgotten Queen: The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey’, Leanda de Lisle is giving UK and US readers a chance to win her books.

Thanks to the generosity of Vintage and Public Affairs, you can win a copy of Leanda’s new book, ‘White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr’ (hbk) and her bestselling ‘Tudor: The Family Story’ (pbk).

‘White King’ will be published in the UK by Chatto & Windus on 11 January and reviewers are calling it ‘formidable…research allied to a lively narrative’ (The Times) and ‘a page-turning history’ (Financial Times).

‘White King’ was published in the US last October by PublicAffairs.

‘Tudor: The Family Story’ was a Sunday Times bestseller, a Telegraph Book of the Year, a History Today Book of the Year and a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year.

It was published in the US as ‘Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England’s Most Notorious Royal Family.’

‘England’s Forgotten Queen’ is on BBC4 at 9pm on 9th, 10th and 11th January.

Leanda will be appearing in all 3 episodes, in which she draws on her best selling ‘The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine & Lady Jane Grey.’