Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier.(Book review)

History Review | March 1, 2008| | Copyright

Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier Charles Spencer Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007 369 pages, 20.00 [pounds sterling] ISBN 978 0 297 84610 9

Charles Spencer, who is an expert on loyalty, admires Prince Rupert for his devotion to his king, his relations, his men and his religion. In this well researched and competently written biography he shows how Rupert remained loyal to Charles I, despite some unfair treatment along the way, loyal to his extravagant mother and selfish older brother, loyal to his undisciplined and wayward men and loyal to his Calvinism, despite the ...

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