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The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain

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by Allan Massie


  Wishart, George (Protestant preacher)

  Witt, Jan and Cornelius de

  Wood, John

  Worcester, Battle of (1651)

  Worcester, Marquis of

  Wordlow, Bishop

  Wormald, Dr J.

  Wotton, Sir Henry

  Wren, Christopher

  Wyndham, Sir Francis

  Wyndham, Sir William

  Yates, Francis

  York

  York, Henry, Duke of see Henry, Duke of York

  York, Richard, Duke of (opposes Henry VI)

  York, Richard, Duke of (son of Edward IV)

  Yorkshire

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  THE ROYAL STUARTS. Copyright © 2010 by Allan Massie. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  ISBN: 978-1-4299-5082-4

  First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Random House

  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Dedication

  Contents

  The Genealogy of the House of Stuart

  Prologue

  Chapter 1. The Stewards: Origins in Legend and History

  Chapter 2. Robert II (1371–90): The First Stewart King

  Chapter 3. Robert III (1390–1406): A Troubled Reign

  Chapter 4. James I (1406–37): The Poet-King

  Chapter 5. James II (1437–60): A Quick-Tempered King

  Chapter 6. James III (1460–88): A Study in Failure

  Chapter 7. James IV (1488–1513): The Flower of the Scottish Renaissance

  Chapter 8. James V (1513–42): People’s King or Tyrant?

  Chapter 9. Mary (1542–67): Scotland’s Tragic Queen

  Chapter 10. James VI and I (1567–1625): The King as Survivor

  Chapter 11. Charles I (1625–49): The Martyr King

  Chapter 12. The Interregnum and the Scattered Family (1649–60)

  Chapter 13. Charles II (1649–85): A Merry and Cynical Monarch

  Chapter 14. James VII and II (1685–88): Author of His Own Tragedy

  Chapter 15. William III (1689–1702) and Mary II (1689–94): Revolution Settlement and Dutch Rule

  Chapter 16. Anne (1702–14): End of an Old Song

  Chapter 17. James VIII and III: Jacobites

  Envoi

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  Acknowledgements

  Notes and Sources

  Notes on Further Reading

  Index

  Copyright

 

 

 


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