1630 Stories

Many stories are told, indeed, but only with this one shall I proceed. The cunning tale of love, in Verona, or as many would call it, simply Ethan and Alana. Slipping sleuthly into the night, luscious red hair lit in moonlight, loyalty of family, while some evil remains— oh the things a few pages can contain. But don't you, dear reader, go making amends! This tale is quite precious; and now we begin.

'A Prince Unboyed' is a seventeenth century novel telling the turbulent boyhood of Prince Charles Stuart, later to become Charles II. London 1630. Queen Henrietta Maria, aged 20, was nearing the delivery of a much wanted Prince, in a tense room packed full of witnesses. It was her second pregnancy, her first child had been born breech and had died, and she was desperate not to fail her beloved but inadequate husband, King Charles I again, nor England. Charles's happy childhood is overshadowed by the country's unrest, with betrayals by trusted friends and incompetence by his own father, until rioting threatens to massacre the royal family within their palaces, amid fears he may lose his inheritance,the crown of England.