The Loves of Charles II
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Authors: Jean Plaidy
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 OneTHE
WANDERING
PRINCE
Henriette d’Orléans
and Lucy Water
“… I think that no joys are above
the pleasures of love.”
C
HARLES
S
TUART
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.