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Born into an East Anglian royalist family in 1623, young Margaret Lucas went into Court service, accompanying the Queen, Henrietta Maria, to Oxford during the Civil War and sharing her hair-raising escape to France in 1644. This title tells us the story of Margaret Cavendish.

Rejecting centuries of hostile historical tradition, a prize-winning biographer uses a host of original sources--including many unpublished manuscripts and letters--to create an intimate portrait of the marriage between King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France.

The biographer's true gifts shine. Rarely has a distant century felt so immediate, its quirks and glories so vivid."--"Washington Times