Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War

In Quarrel with the King, Adam Nicolson, the bestselling author of Gods Secretaries and Seize the Fire, explores questions of loyalty, power, betrayal, and rebellion, as witnessed through the life and times of one of Englands richest and most influential families. Spanning the most turbulent and dramatic years of English historyfrom the 1520s to 1650Quarrel with the King tells the story of four generations of the Pembroke family, following their glamorous trajectory across 130 years of change, ambition, resistance, and war, culminating in rebellion against the king.