- Published: 15 November 2022
- ISBN: 9781784742973
- Imprint: Chatto & Windus
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $40.00
Henrietta Maria
Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
- Published: 15 November 2022
- ISBN: 9781784742973
- Imprint: Chatto & Windus
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $40.00
About the author
Leanda de Lisle's beautifully written and endlessly fascinating new biography of Henrietta Maria brings one of the 17th century's most misunderstood women to glorious life. For far too long, Henrietta Maria has been patronised and belittled by historians as little more than an adjunct to her husband. This salutary and important book restores her to her rightful place as one of the most fascinating and important figures of her time
ALEXANDER LARMAN, author of The Crown in Crisis
Leanda de Lisle's beautifully written and endlessly fascinating new biography of Henrietta Maria brings one of the 17th century's most misunderstood women to glorious life. For far too long, Henrietta Maria has been patronised and belittled by historians as little more than an adjunct to her husband. This salutary and important book restores her to her rightful place as one of the most fascinating and important figures of her time
ALEXANDER LARMAN, author of The Crown in Crisis
Leanda de Lisle has brilliantly overturned nearly four centuries of misogynistic, religiously bigoted and politically motivated myths about Henrietta Maria, who now emerges as a fascinating, fearless, but ill-fated woman, wife and mother. This is revisionist history at its absolute best
ANDREW ROBERTS, author of George III: The Life of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch
Leanda de Lisle has brilliantly overturned nearly four centuries of misogynistic, religiously bigoted and politically motivated myths about Henrietta Maria, who now emerges as a fascinating, fearless, but ill-fated woman, wife and mother. This is revisionist history at its absolute best
ANDREW ROBERTS, author of George III: The Life of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch
This is popular history of the finest kind, vivid, immediate, well researched and telling a compelling story. It is also serves the first duty of biography, by making its subject more wholly understandable than before.
RONALD HUTTON, author of The Witch
This is popular history of the finest kind, vivid, immediate, well researched and telling a compelling story. It is also serves the first duty of biography, by making its subject more wholly understandable than before.
RONALD HUTTON, author of The Witch
Leanda de Lisle's beautifully written and endlessly fascinating new biography of Henrietta Maria brings one of the 17th century's most misunderstood women to glorious life . . . This salutary and important book restores her to her rightful place as one of the most important figures of her time
ALEXANDER LARMAN, author of The Crown in Crisis
Leanda de Lisle's beautifully written and endlessly fascinating new biography of Henrietta Maria brings one of the 17th century's most misunderstood women to glorious life . . . This salutary and important book restores her to her rightful place as one of the most important figures of her time
ALEXANDER LARMAN, author of The Crown in Crisis
If the Stuarts are having their time in the sun at last, then Leanda de Lisle is one of the reasons they are. Masterful and pleasurable about a transformative century and a neglected, underestimated woman's role in it -- what more can one want from history?
SARAH FRASER, author of The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
If the Stuarts are having their time in the sun at last, then Leanda de Lisle is one of the reasons they are. Masterful and pleasurable about a transformative century and a neglected, underestimated woman's role in it -- what more can one want from history?
SARAH FRASER, author of The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
Like the proverbial phoenix, Henrietta Maria is a glorious resurrection of one of the most misrepresented queens of England. A reviled figure in her day, and little better than a caricature ever after, Henrietta Maria can be compared to Marie Antoinette - except for the fact that she managed to survive her husband's execution and live to see one of her sons crowned King Charles II. She deserves a seat in the pantheon of extraordinary women. And finally, thanks to Leanda de Lisle's meticulous research, she has a biography worthy of her fascinating life.
AMANDA FOREMAN, author of A World on Fire
Like the proverbial phoenix, Henrietta Maria is a glorious resurrection of one of the most misrepresented queens of England. A reviled figure in her day, and little better than a caricature ever after, Henrietta Maria can be compared to Marie Antoinette - except for the fact that she managed to survive her husband's execution and live to see one of her sons crowned King Charles II. She deserves a seat in the pantheon of extraordinary women. And finally, thanks to Leanda de Lisle's meticulous research, she has a biography worthy of her fascinating life.
AMANDA FOREMAN, author of A World on Fire
