The Last Stuarts
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Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
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A richly detailed work of royal biography and history, The Last Stuarts chronicles the twilight years of the exiled Stuart dynasty following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, tracing the lives of the pretenders who clung to their claims of the British throne from the courts of Europe. James Lees-Milne brings his characteristic elegance and intimacy to the subject, presenting the poignant and often melancholy stories of James II's descendants — from the Old Pretender to Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart — as they navigated a world that had largely moved on without them. With the discerning eye of a cultural historian, the narrative illustrates how these figures maintained the rituals and pretensions of royalty even as their political relevance faded into near-irrelevance. The tone is sympathetic yet unsentimental, balancing scholarly rigor with the kind of vivid, personal detail that made Lees-Milne one of Britain's most beloved biographers. Readers with an interest in the Jacobite cause, the baroque courts of Rome and France, or the human cost of dynastic failure will find this an absorbing and authoritative account.
Author: James Lees-Milne
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A richly detailed work of royal biography and history, The Last Stuarts chronicles the twilight years of the exiled Stuart dynasty following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, tracing the lives of the pretenders who clung to their claims of the British throne from the courts of Europe. James Lees-Milne brings his characteristic elegance and intimacy to the subject, presenting the poignant and often melancholy stories of James II's descendants — from the Old Pretender to Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart — as they navigated a world that had largely moved on without them. With the discerning eye of a cultural historian, the narrative illustrates how these figures maintained the rituals and pretensions of royalty even as their political relevance faded into near-irrelevance. The tone is sympathetic yet unsentimental, balancing scholarly rigor with the kind of vivid, personal detail that made Lees-Milne one of Britain's most beloved biographers. Readers with an interest in the Jacobite cause, the baroque courts of Rome and France, or the human cost of dynastic failure will find this an absorbing and authoritative account.