The Loves of Charles II

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ALSO BY JEAN PLAIDY

From Three Rivers Press

T
HE
W
IVES OF
H
ENRY
VIII

The Rose Without a Thorn

The Lady in the Tower

Katharine of Aragon

The Sixth Wife

T
HE
T
UDOR
P
RINCESSES

Mary, Queen of France

The Thistle and the Rose

T
HE
T
UDOR
Q
UEENS

In the Shadow of the Crown

Queen of This Realm

The Royal Road to Fotheringhay

Victoria Victorious

T
HE
N
ORMAN
T
RILOGY

The Bastard King

The Lion of Justice

The Passionate Enemies

T
HE
P
LANTAGENET
S
AGA

Plantagenet Prelude

The Revolt of the Eaglets

The Heart of the Lion

The Prince of Darkness

The Battle of the Queens

The Queen from Provence

Edward Longshanks

The Follies of the King

The Vow on the Heron

Passage to Pontefract

The Star of Lancaster

Epitaph for Three Women

Red Rose of Anjou

The Sun in Splendor

T
HE
T
UDOR
N
OVELS

Uneasy Lies the Head

Katharine, the Virgin Widow

The Shadow of the Pomegranate

The King’s Secret Matter

Murder Most Royal

St. Thomas’ Eve

The Sixth Wife

The Spanish Bridegroom

Gay Lord Robert

T
HE
S
TUART
S
AGA

The Captive Queen of Scots

The Murder in the Tower

The Wandering Prince

The Three Crowns

The Haunted Sisters

The Queen’s Favorites

T
HE
G
EORGIAN
S
AGA

The Princess of Celle

Queen in Waiting

Caroline the Queen

The Prince and the Quakeress

The Third George

Perdita’s Prince

Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill

Indiscretions of the Queen

The Regent’s Daughter

Goddess of the Green Room

Victoria in the Wings

T
HE
Q
UEEN
V
ICTORIA
S
ERIES

The Captive of Kensington Palace

The Queen and Lord M

The Queen’s Husband

The Widow of Windsor

T
HE
F
ERDINAND AND
I
SABELLA
T
RILOGY

Castile for Isabella

Spain for the Sovereigns

Daughter of Spain

T
HE
L
UCREZIA
B
ORGIA
S
ERIES

Madonna of the Seven Hills

Light on Lucrezia

T
HE
M
EDICI
T
RILOGY

Madame Serpent

The Italian Woman

Queen Jezebel

T
HE
F
RENCH
R
EVOLUTION
S
ERIES

Louis the Well-Beloved

The Road to Compienge

Flaunting, Extravagant Queen

Evergreen Gallant

Myself, My Enemy

Beyond the Blue Mountains

The Goldsmith’s Wife

The Scarlet Cloak

Defenders of the Faith

Daughter of Satan

Part One
THE
WANDERING
PRINCE

Henriette d’Orléans
and Lucy Water

“… I think that no joys are above
the pleasures of love.”

C
HARLES
S
TUART

ONE

t was late afternoon on a July day in the fourth year of the Great Rebellion. The sun was hot; the grass banks were brown; and the purple nettle-flowers and the petals of the woundwort were peppered with fine dust.

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