A revisionist biography of Henrietta Maria (1609-1699), Charles I's much maligned Catholic queen
Daughter of a murdered father, Wife of a slaughtered husband. Henrietta Maria would rise from the ashes of civil war as Britain's Phoenix queen.
The Generalissima is a new and groundbreaking biography of Henrietta Maria (1609-1699), Charles I's much maligned Catholic queen. Henrietta Maria, along with her mother and sisters, sat on thrones across early modern Europe and played a vital role in politics and power, in ways completely ignored by the traditional school of (often male) historians.
This promises to be revisionist history of the highest calibre from one of our great popular historians - with her eye for character, narrative zeal and the telling novelistic detail.
