What I’m Reading: The Stuarts

The Stuarts, by J.P. Kenyon, is a history covering the Stuarts, who became English ruling family after Elizabeth I of the Tudor dynasty died without an heir in 1603. The monarchs are James I (1603-25), Charles I (1625-49, and beheaded at the end of his reign), an interruption for the English Civil War and a brief republic, Charles II (1660-85), James II (1685-88), the co-monarchs William III (1689-1702) and Mary II (1689-94), and finally, Anne (1702-1714).

I must say, I did not especially ca...