{"product_id":"9781408845936-the-last-royal-rebel","title":"The Last Royal Rebel","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant history of Britain from the Civil War to the Glorious Revolution, told through the extraordinarily dramatic life and violent death of the Duke of Monmouth - reformer, romantic, rebel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject’ \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic’ Simon Sebag Montefiore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is the best royal biography I have read in years’ A.N. Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Duff Cooper Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Restless Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, a remarkable biography of one of the most intriguing figures of the Restoration era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames, Duke of Monmouth, the favoured illegitimate son of Charles II, was born in exile the year his grandfather Charles I was executed and the English monarchy abolished. Abducted from his mother on his father’s orders, he emerged from a childhood in the backstreets of Rotterdam to command the ballrooms of Paris, the brothels of Covent Garden and the battlefields of Flanders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch was his appeal that when the monarchy itself came under threat, the cry was for Monmouth to succeed Charles II as king. He inspired both delight and disgust, adulation and abhorrence and, in time, love and loyalty. Louis XIV was his mentor, Nell Gwyn his protector, D’Artagnan his lieutenant, William of Orange his confidant, John Dryden his censor and John Locke his comrade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Last Royal Rebel\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna Keay matches rigorous scholarship with a storyteller’s gift to enrapturing effect. She paints a vivid portrait of the warm, courageous and handsome Duke of Monmouth, a man who by his own admission ‘lived a very dissolute and irregular life’, but who was ultimately prepared to risk everything for honour and justice. \u003cb\u003eHis story, culminating in his fateful invasion, provides a sweeping chronicle of the turbulent decades in which England as we know it was forged.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote: There is a chance the book cover you receive may differ from the cover displayed here\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943981297761,"sku":"9781408845936","price":12.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36017427_bdfb6e3e-c85c-453a-a372-abaa3a22fd8f.jpg?v=1757558207","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781408845936-the-last-royal-rebel","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}