Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses [Paperback]

`Enthralling ... Worsley's powerful imagination focuses with great effect on the settings that she evokes with bright and telling detail'. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

`Worsley's strength is her sense of period, and her ability to bring people to life.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

`Marvellous ... a tour de force of the historic imagination, aligned to impeccable scholarship'. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Cavalier is one 'of my favourite September reads.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Lucy Worsley, the chief curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, tells a story packed with conspiracy, sexual intrigue and gossip.

William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and miserable continental exile before returning to England in triumph on the restoration of King Charles II to the throne in 1660. Lucy Worsley brings to life a fascinating household of the seventeenth century, painting a picture of conspiracy, sexual intrigue, clandestine marriage and gossip. From Ben Jonson and Van Dyck to a savage, knife-wielding master-cook, Cavalier is a brilliant illumination of the stately home and all its many colourful inhabitants.

Lucy Worsley is Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces, based at Hampton Court. She also appears regularly on radio and television, on BBC1's The One Show, as well as Timewatch and other history programmes. Lucy is the author of Courtiers: The Secret History of Kensington Palace and Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses. Please drop in at www.lucyworsley.com for more information.