Sejarah --- Charles II - Merry Monach -

dexa

We now know that after QE passed away - his son Prince Charles (Prince of Wales then) crowned as Charles III -
why III ---  who was Charles II ?-  let's find out and learn a bit about King Charles III ancestor,  Charles II



Charles II --- was also known as Merry Monarch and we will find out why...

Charles II was king of England, Scotland and Ireland whose restoration to the throne in 1660
marked the end of republican rule in England -

Charles was born on 29th May 1630 - the eldest surviving son of Charles I and with
the parliamentary victory he was forced into exile on the continent
He was in Netherlands when in 1649 he learnt of his father's execution-

Charles II ran a hedonistic court  despite the early years of his reign being marred by
the bubonic plague (the great plague 1665) and the great of fire (1666)- which led to
substantial rebuilding of the city of London -



Charles II was known as a "Merry Monarch" because his reign came in
direct contrast with the previous Puritan Regime; his was an era of
flamboyant fashions and courtly excess which reference to the liveliness,
many romances and hedonism of his court

He had a number of illegitimate children with various mistresses but NONE
with his wife, Catherine of Braganza -

He ruled until his death on 6th February 1685 - converting to Catholicism from
Protestant on his death bed -



Without an heir, the crown passed to his brother James,
known as James II of England or (James VII of Scotland)

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those are a little introduction about Charles II -
the pictures here were ilustrated/ painted
by John Michael Wright (1617 - 1694)

adila39

please carry on mod, excellent posting!

Scheherazade

Lemme add a bit ya about Charles II ni - sourced from royal uk nye website

The eldest surviving son of Charles I, Charles had been eight years old when Civil War broke out. He was with his father at the Battle of Edgehill and in Oxford, until ordered by him to seek the safety of France.

The Scots were horrified when Charles I was executed in 1649, and while England became a republic, they proclaimed his son king, and invited him to come to Scotland. Agreeing to Presbyterian demands that he sign the National Covenant, he did so.

Cromwell then marched north, defeated the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar on 3 September 1650, captured part of southern Scotland and seized and removed the nation's public records, although he did not manage to take the Honours of Scotland (the Scottish regalia).

On 1 January 1651, the Scots crowned Charles II at Scone (this turned out to be the last such Coronation at Scone). In July, the English army marched into Fife and then captured Perth, while the Scottish forces headed south into England, where they were defeated at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651.

Charles II escaped, and fled to France once more. The English, meanwhile, moved on to take Stirling and Dundee.

By 1 October, Scottish resistance was effectively at an end, and the English government announced that England and Scotland were henceforth to be one commonwealth. This union took effect from 1652, although the acts of union did not become law until 1657.

Charles II spent the next nine years in exile, until in 1660 he was invited back to London and restored to his father's throne. He always recalled with distaste his time in Scotland. The Presbyterians had lectured him constantly about morality and told him that kings were merely the vassals of God, like everyone else, and so he had no desire to go north again. Instead, Charles II left his Secretary of State, John, Duke of Lauderdale, to enforce his policies of royal absolutism in both church and state.