White King: The Tragedy of Charles I (Paperback)

'A revelation... White King is that rare thing, a page-turning history that gently but insistently also asks provocative questions about a period on which our opinions have been all too fixed. Charles does not emerge with his reputation restored, but he emerges whole.' - Mathew Lyons, The Financial Times

'Fascinating.' - Andrew Marr, The Evening Standard

'Humane and scholarly... De Lisle's deeply and originally researched book brings Charles alive not in kingly isolation but as a father and a husband. Both biography and subject deserve our fullest attention.' - Dan Jones, The Mail on Sunday

'Engaging, well-researched and beautifully written... Emphatically not another book about the civil wars, this instead offers a nuanced and detailed examination of one of our most complex monarchs. It is probably the definitive modern work about Charles I.' - Alexander Larman, The Observer

'De Lisle, who has long been an original voice in popular Tudor studies, is generous to Charles, but too sharp a reader of evidence to ignore his flaws... Pellucid, compelling and enriched by fresh evidence... Sympathetic but scrupulous to the last.' - Jessie Childs, The Sunday Telegraph

'This is the most gripping piece of revisionist history I have read for a long time.' - The Spectator