I've realised I went off at a tangent about Charles being hit on the head and didn't actually answer Natalie's question re Christabella's role in his sexual awakening.
Sorry!
Everything's out of control when it comes to the sex life of #CharlesII – even me, it seems! 😆
Thanks to @ifitaintbaroquepod.bsky.social
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Me banging on about #CharlesII
😘Was he flirting in church?
⚔️Did he make French troops disobey orders?
🌍Where was he when?
👑How did becoming king alter his approach to his mother?
📣I also reveal what my next book's about.
Lord Ashcombe x Charles II from The Blackthorn Key series by Kevin Sands.
Happy Valentine’s Day❤️
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#Art #Fanart #TheBlackthornKey #CharlesII #LordAshcombe #T4T #RoyalSimps
DYK #CharlesII, a #bisexual rake like kings #JamesI & #JamesII, punished #sodomy but bragged about his #QueerSex partners? He said God wouldn’t punish him for “a little pleasure taken out of the way”. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
#CharlesII died #OnThisDay in 1685; he'd had to flee England after his father's execution & lived in penurious exile before the #Restoration of the monarchy in 1660; he was a very mixed bag but an improvement on the #Puritan regime of Oliver Cromwell...
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How can #CharlesII have died #otd 1685 but half rule my life?
It should now be more about my #wip (even though he isn't the main subject), but look what has a 73% #discount atm! Maybe for #Valentines, here I go promoting it again.🙄
#royals #ECW #Restoration #deals
www.amazon.com/Charles-II-C...
#OTD 6th Feb 1685
#CharlesII died
Succeeded by brother, James II of England & Ireland/VII of Scotland - the last male #Stuart in line of succession his reign cut short by 'The Glorious Revolution'
Deposed he was succeeded by William III & Mary II
@17thcenturylady.bsky.social #KeepItStuart
Looking forward to playing for Colchester #EarlyMusic on 1 March.
The King's Delight: #Music, words & #song from #Restoration Britain.
Do join us!
#earlymodern #charlesii #17thCentury #plague #greatfireoflondon #earlymusicensemble
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#17thC #Stuart #history #childhood #adolescence #war #army #Englishcivilwar #royals #CharlesII #monarchy #revolution #Parliament #Cromwell #Restoration #childdevelopment #teenagers #Britishhistory #royalhistory #historybooks #Britishmonarchy #Scotland #rebellion
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Portrait of Charles II
1 January 1651: Charles II was crowned King of Scotland at #Scone Abbey. #History #Scotland #CharlesII
Three ways to save money! www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Charles-II-e...
#ebooks #history #CharlesII #17thCentury #sales #discounts #Stuart #ECW #childhood #adolescence #royals #revolution #Restoration
Thanks to #ebooks, there's still time to send a #Christmas 🎁 anywhere in the world.
How about a bio of #CharlesII age 0–30?
A close look at Old Rowley when young
He's even a virgin for several chapters!
For now, on offer on #Kindle
www.amazon.com/Charles-II-C...
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My review of Stephen Coote’s Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles II #CharlesII #KingsofBritain #Britishhistory #EnglishCivilWar #restoration #MerryMonarch #StephenCootes
History Book Reviews: THE MERRY MONARCH jeremyshistoryreviews.blogspot.com/2012/03/merr...
#otd 1658
Under Richard Cromwell, a #GeneralElection is called. Royalist candidates are barred, but exiled #CharlesII has men play a game of deceit.
If that fails, he may try other plans. Two, though, need enemy collusion.
www.amazon.com/dp/1399064517 😉
#politics #Parliament #restoration #republic
Charles II: The Power & the Passion (2003)
On this day in 2003, Charles II: The Power and the Passion aka The Last King premiered in the UK, with costumes by Mike O’Neill! Check out our reviews of the miniseries on FrockFlicks.com at frockflicks.com/tbt-last-kin...
#CharlesII #MikeONeill #17thCenturyCostume #HistoricalCostume #HistoricalTV
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She was barely old enough to hold a quill when the weight of a Scottish fortune fell on her shoulders. Anna Scott was born into one of Scotland’s most prominent families. #scotland #scottishhistory #england #englishhistory #culture #flipboardusergroup #history #blogger #charlesII
With big thanks to @1642author.bsky.social
My first author interview! Hear me nervous & excited in conversation re pre-Restoration #CharlesII:
#childhood
developing understanding
fears
military role
relationships with #women
alternative restoration plans
#ECW #c17
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Watch the whole video (Judy Plus 150: Gout and bloodletting, and the death of Charles II of England) on the following link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HAh...
Judy's website: JudyFayLondon.com
#bloodletting #CharlesII #death
Charles II (my book) has been out in the world for 4½ months.
So shouldn't it look like this?
Instead it apparently looks like Mr Bean (see cover).
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😆😆
#publishing #babies #cute #cuteness #silly #CharlesII #history #royals #art #comedy #Stuart #17thC #RowanAtkinson
DYK 17thC English rakes, including kings #CharlesII, #JamesI & #JamesII, bragged about #SameSex partners & the women in their lives? Charles said God wouldn’t punish him for “a little #pleasure taken out of the way”. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
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#JudyPlus #science #scientific #gout #bloodletting #charlesII #scienceworld #history #diseases
Had a great - albeit short - #histgym session today. A couple of little life details make all the difference: 1. My teaching schedule works perfectly with my #dialysis. Cheers to my principal. 2. My dialysis starts 45mn later, giving me more time to exist. #Amreading about #CharlesII & #Restoration
He did! He gets little credit for the fact Parliament invited him to rule after the Cromwellian & republican era, but they didn't have to choose #CharlesII.
If he'd developed differently, they may not have invited him.
And they knew he was, as you say, a little dodgy.
#history #politics #monarchy
Charmouth #otd 1651
A ship fails to come & rescue fugitive #CharlesII. At an inn he's waited all night. Now he kisses the landlady 🤨 & leaves, disguised. He doesn't hear an onlooker identify him.
Charles is off to Bridport, but rage leads him to such 'rudeness', he takes a big risk.
#royal #escape
Sep 1659
MISSING
After a rising for him fails, #CharlesII has vanished. Arrest threatens him in France, and he's creeping south but sent no word to his advisers in Brussels. Hyde's concern soars.
No wonder Hyde keeps scolding him! Yet Charles has called Hyde 'the naughty man'.😆
🎨unimpressed Hyde
#otd 1651
Roundhead troops & a 'great priest-catcher' go snooping round Moseley Hall, causing #CharlesII to wake in alarm & dive into a priest-hole with John Huddleston—a man who conceals being a #Catholic priest.
Tonight, Charles has a very interesting discussion with him.
#religion #escape #royals
These Charleses
A. Charles Stuart (pictured as an 'infant prince'✳️)
B. Charles Giffard
The name Giffard means 'chubby cheeks', so basically B describes A.
✳️'infant prince' is a term used for him in #Blackadder 😃
#babies #CharlesII #royalfamily #comedy #c17 #Stuarts #art #excusetopostcuteness
#CharlesII hid in a giant oak tree in Boscobel #OnThisDay in 1651 following the Royalist army's defeat by Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army at the Battle of Worcester in the #EnglishCivilWar on Sept. 3; he would spend 9 years in exile until the Restoration in 1660...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_...
He never shut up about it—why?
IMO, when #CharlesII nearly fell out of a tree while hiding from #Parliament's men #otd 1651, his thinking was changing.
The escape saw close shaves of arguably more interest, yet his #royaloak focus makes sense in view of before & after.
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