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