The Blurb
Alan Tims works on a mystery that perplexed him for all of his adult life. Why did Charles the 1st, King of England in 1648 escape from his Parliamentary captus in London and get on a boat to the Isle of Wight, certain of capture, instead of going to France to his family and safety. Did he come to the island to tell the de Lacy family that they had a legitimate claim to the throne of England, believing, as he did, that Oliver Cromwell was determined to make the Stewart line extinct?