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Children of Charles the Second
Children of Charles the Second
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1st Earl of Lichfield.
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Anne Scott
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Barbara Villiers
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Catherine Pegge
Charles and James Beauclerk
Charles Fitzroy
Charles Lennox
Charlotte Fitzroy
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Countess of Berkeley
Countess of Lichfield
Countess of Sussex
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Duchess of Buccleuch and of Monmouth
Duke of Grafton
Duke of Monmouth
Duke of Southampton
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Henry Fitzroy
James
King Charles II
King William III
Lady Mary Radcliffe
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Louisa
Louise de Kerouaille
Lucy Walter
Mary Davis
Nell Gwyn
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Sir Charles Lee
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Product details
- ISBN 9781781559468
- Weight: 412g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Fonthill Media Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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King Charles II was the father of fourteen illegitimate children (if not more) by seven mistresses. Ironically, his marriage to Queen Catherine, a Portuguese princess, proved childless. The eldest and most notable of his children, James, duke of Monmouth, was effectively excluded from the line of succession. After his father's death the duke launched an armed challenge for the crown against his uncle, then James II, but was defeated at the battle of Sedgemoor and executed. Some of Charles's other sons, notably Henry, duke of Grafton, Charles, duke of St Albans, and the youngest, Charles, duke of Richmond, took part in military and naval campaigns at home and overseas. Some of his daughters married into various branches of the British aristocracy-though not without occasional scandal-while one married a composer and another took holy orders. In the context of the relaxed morals of the Restoration court, this biography examines the sometimes poorly documented lives of each of Charles's children, their personal relations with each other, their places in English history, their love affairs, and the lines of descent through which several key figures of the modern British royal family can trace their lineage.
John Van der Kiste has published over forty books including works on royal and historical biography, local history, true crime, music and fiction. He is also a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. His previous Fonthill titles include 'The End of the Hapsburgs', 'Queen Victoria and the European Empires', 'The Prussian Princesses' and 'Alfred-Queen Victoria's Second Son'. He lives in Devon.
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