A Diamond in the Dust: The Stuarts: Love, Art, War (The Stuarts: Love, Art, War, #1)

by Michael Dean

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A Diamond in the Dust is a fictionalised account of the life of Charles I from his birth to the age of twenty-eight.

It shows England's most maligned monarch, Charles I, as he really was. Dominated by his debauched father, James I, he grew up a diffident, stuttering, dreamy figure, wracked by a crippling disease - rickets.

But he was lifted and defined by his passion for all the arts, especially theatre and painting.

Brutal real-life caught up with him, however, spinning him at the centre of a whirlwind of love, art, war and even murder, as he struggled unsuccessfully to keep control of his life and his kingdom.

This first novel in the trilogy The Stuarts: Love, Art, War, shows Charles I growing up and finding love. It puts the vilified king in a different light. Under the wing of his precocious sister Elizabeth he blossoms and his interest in culture and the arts grows into a passion or some would say an obsession.
  • ISBN13 9781907320965
  • Publish Date 10 November 2022
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Holland Park Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 225
  • Language English