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Mon 5 Sep, 2005 01:30 pm
Azalea Adair, fifty years old, white-haired, a descendant of the cavaliers, as thin and frail as the house she lived in, robed in the cheapest and cleanest dress I ever saw, with an air as simple as a queen's, received me.
What does 'descendent of cavaliers' mean? She is a descendent of knights, soldiers or gallant and courtly gentlemen?
Thanx!
During the English civil war (1642-1649), the Cavaliers were the gentlemen who supported the monarchy. Their opponents, led by Oliver Cromwell, who were successful in instituting a sort of republican form of government were called Roundheads. So a descendant of Cavaliers would be one who comes from a noble family which was anti-Republican and pro-Monarchic.
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