A Health Unto His Majesty

Against the colorful backfrop of 17th Century England comes the romantic story of Charles Stuart's return to th ethrone. For years an exiled price, he wandered throughout Europe, a man without a country. then one day England thrust aside her Puritan rule and called him back to become her king - charles II. Here is his story of passion and struggle seen through the eyes of the two women who loved him. Barbara Palmer, vulgar, ambitious, promiscuous, and sensual - she was the king's mistress who would not give him up, even to his wife. And Catherine of Braganza, the woman Charles was forced to wed. A shy and unworldly woman whose love for her husband was indestructible