The White King by Leanda de Lisle

Author:Leanda de Lisle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2017-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

* When Henrietta Maria reached Nevers in October 1644, her dwarf Jeffrey Hudson challenged the brother of the captain of her guard to a duel. The weapons chosen were pistols on horseback. The cavalier didn’t take it seriously, and arrived armed only with a giant squirt with which to ‘extinguish’ Hudson and his powder. Hudson shot him in the head. Henrietta Maria had raised Hudson since he was seven years old, when he had sprung out of a pie, eighteen inches high and perfectly proportioned. At Henrietta Maria’s request he was spared execution for murder, though he was obliged to leave her household. She would never see him again. He was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and he was to spend the next twenty-five years as a slave. His freedom from his Muslim captors was then purchased along with those of other English slaves. In England, however, he was imprisoned for his Catholic faith in 1676, and though eventually released in 1680 he died only two years later.

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