Description
| Product ID: | 9780750999403 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The King's Smuggler |
| Subtitle: | Jane Whorwood, Secret Agent to Charles I |
| Authors: | Author: John Fox |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, European history, History, Civil wars, Espionage and secret services, British & Irish history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, English Civil War, Espionage & secret services |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Using known and new evidence, John Fox provides the first biography of this extraordinary woman, a forgotten key player in the English Civil War. Jane Whorwood(1612–84) was one of Charles I’s closest confidantes. The daughter of Scots courtiers at Whitehall and the wife of an Oxfordshire squire, when the court moved to Oxford in 1642, at the start of the Civil War, she helped the Royalist cause by spying for the king and smuggling at least three-quarters of a ton of gold to help pay for his army. When Charles was held captive by the Parliamentarians, from 1646 to 1649, she organised money, correspondence, several escape attempts, astrological advice and a ship to carry him to Holland. The king and she also had a wartime ‘brief encounter’. After Charles’s execution in 1649, Jane’s marriage collapsed in one of the most public and acrimonious separation cases of the seventeenth century. Using crucial evidence, John Fox provides a detailed biography of this extraordinary woman, a forgotten key player in the English Civil War. |
| Imprint Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | The History Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-04-14 |