Rupert, Prince Palatine

Born amid Prague’s rejoicing, baby Rupert was nearly left behind when his family fled: dropped by a terrified nurse, he lay on the floor until a passing baron found him.

In 1619, Europe’s religious and political quarrels erupted into war, and Rupert’s parents, Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart, were driven from the throne of Bohemia. Eva Scott begins her portrait with a prince whose contemporaries could call him both a ravenous vulture and one of the most generous men they knew. His birth came in a moment of triumph; soon his family was scattered, and the child’s life began in exile. How would a boy carried from a besieged kingdom grow into the figure his enemies feared and his friends admired?

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