After serving as the Royalist capital of the west for nearly three years and housing the Royal court, Exeter surrendered to Fairfax. Queen Henrietta Maria had given birth there in 1644 and escaped to France; the young Princess Henrietta was left behind and later became Duchess of Orleans.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Devon