![]() ![]() ![]() Charles ruled without Parliament from 1629 to 1640, but lack of money and war with Scotland forced his hand. Charles was the son of James I and mostly a chip off the old block: a High Church Anglican who believed in the divine right of kings and clerical authority, which guaranteed trouble with the austere, Protestant Calvinists who were gaining power. The Story of England’s Most Notorious Royal Family, 2013) delivers a more generous portrait. Sure enough, veteran British historian de Lisle ( Tudor: Passion. Biography of an English king whose “life and reign add up to far more than the sum of his mistakes.”Ĭharles I (1600-1649) has always received bad press as the villain of “the triumph of virtuous, warty-faced politicians and soldiers over a king who is weak, stupid and backward looking…a mere speed bump on the high road to liberal democracy.” Reading this description on the first page, one may suspect that the author disagrees. ![]()
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