Lights, Camera, Royals!

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For Cavaliers and royalists in seventeenth-century England, the Eikon Basilike ranked with the Bible as a sacred text. Published almost as soon as King Charles I was executed in January 1649, and purporting to be his spiritual diary, it went through innumerable editions despite the attempts of the Cromwellian regime to suppress it. The book […]

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