EXCLUSIVE: Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer’s book To Catch a King is to be adapted by Philomena and The Lost King duo Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope. Coogan’s BBC Studios-bac…
won the option for the rights to the book and he will co-write with Pope, with the pair having recently penned Stephen Frears-directedSpencer’s 2017 book, his seventh, tells the story of the 21-year-old King Charles II’s run from Oliver Cromwell’s army, who had overthrown the monarchy and publicly executed Charles’s father.
Based on the account given by King Charles II along with letters and diaries, it tells of how the monarch succeeded in evading the Parliamentary troops by means of deception and disguise, including infamously hiding in an oak tree as the troops passed by below.as a “coming-of-age story of a young man who has to give up his privilege in order to survive” and Spencer said it tells “one of the most thrilling episodes in British royal history.
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