After his defeat at Worcester in 1651, the young Charles II becomes a hunted fugitive with a price on his head. Ainsworth, who visited the hiding-places himself, follows the king through the woods of Boscobel, the night in the famous oak with Colonel Careless, the loyal Penderel brothers and a succession of disguises and narrow escapes on the way to the sea.
An exciting telling of what a nineteenth-century bishop called the most romantic episode in English history. Download the free EPUB.