The Young Cavaliers

The D'Arcy twins--thirteen-year-old Earl Rupert and Lady Diana D'Arcy--were loyal to their king. But civil war came to England, and the Puritans under General Cromwell prevailed. They executed King Charles I, and hounded his son, the rightful King Charles II into hiding. After a Puritan army seized their home, the twins were sent to be brought up in a "quiet and god-fearing household"--which promptly became less quiet, although possibly more god-fearing, for Diana and Rupert believed in God just as firmly as any Puritan.