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2 days ago · Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France.
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May 20, 2024 · Royalist defeat in the 1648 Second English Civil War resulted in the execution of Charles I in January 1649, and establishment of the Commonwealth of England. In 1650, Charles II was crowned king of Scotland, in return for agreeing to create a Presbyterian church in both England and Scotland.
2 days ago · Charles was born in Scotland in 1600, the second son of King James VI of Scotland (who later also became James I of England). He became heir to the throne at age 12 upon the death of his popular elder brother Henry from typhoid fever. Unlike the outgoing and athletic Henry, Charles was a sickly, reserved child who developed a stammer.
4 days ago · For the first time, a ruling monarch was the defendant in formal legal proceedings in a High Court of Justice, set up by the act of a Parliament which felt able to profess to be the supreme power in the land. (For text of this act see Rushworth, Historical Collections v 8, 1379)
May 7, 2024 · How much do you know about the former King? Was the Restoration period of English history a tragedy or comedy, or both? The Merry Monarch who took the lead role for this Act, in the performance that was the House of Stuart, still divides opinion 350 years after he was restored to England’s throne.
Apr 30, 2024 · Charles I by Van Dyck. On his appointment as Principal Painter to Charles I in 1632, the Flemish artist Van Dyck - Rubens's most gifted follower - was required to specialise in portraiture.
May 2, 2024 · Charles I (reigned: 1625-1649) Charles I was the second Stuart king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whose reign was marked by religious conflicts and a constitutional crisis that culminated in the English Civil War.
