Written for her only surviving son, Ann Fanshawe’s memoir tells how she married the Royalist diplomat Sir Richard Fanshawe during the Civil War and followed him through siege, flight, sea voyages, imprisonment and exile. After the Restoration she went with him as ambassador’s wife to the courts of Lisbon and Madrid, where he died in 1666.
One of the most moving personal records of seventeenth-century England, with letters and extracts from the embassy years. Download the free EPUB.