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Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) [c] 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.
The son of George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge, [1] was created a Knight of the Bath for the coronation of Charles II in 1661, and received his Master of Arts from Oxford on 28 September 1663.
Charles II's mother, Mariana of Austria, recognized Joseph Ferdinand as rightful heir to the Spanish crown and firmly advocated for his claim. [1] [10] This put her at odds with her younger brother Leopold I and daughter-in-law Mariana of Neuburg: both wanted Leopold's son, the Archduke Charles, to succeed Charles II.
The King has marked his coronation with a new photograph of himself and his two heirs. The picture of Charles, alongside the Prince of Wales and Prince George, was taken in Buckingham Palace’s ...
The Jacobite succession stemmed from the death of Charles II in 1685. When Charles’ younger brother James, Duke of York became king as James II of England and VII of Scotland, concerns arose that James, a recent Catholic convert, would return England to Catholicism, especially after the birth of a son, James Francis Edward Stuart , who would ...
Isaac Fuller, King Charles II at Whiteladies, c.1660. Penderel was suspected of Royalist sympathies during the Commonwealth, but kept a low profile and was left unmolested. He was rewarded on the Restoration, welcomed at Charles II's court in June 1660. He was given a reward of £200 and an annuity of £100 for him and his heirs in April 1662.
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