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  2. Charles II of England - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Charles II of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Charles II [a] (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) [b] was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg, which had ruled Spain since 1516, he died without children, leading to a European conflict over his successor. For reasons still debated, Charles experienced lengthy periods of ill health throughout his life.

  4. Charles II: The Power and the Passion - Wikipedia

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    The script appears to be heavily influenced by Antonia Fraser's bestselling 1979 biography Charles II. In the "Making of Charles II" Rufus Sewell states that he used Fraser's book as guide to his portrayal of the penultimate Stuart king. There are some issues of fact which are altered or omitted in the script.

  5. Catherine of Braganza - Wikipedia

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    The same year, Charles II ordered the building of a Royal yacht HMY Saudadoes for her, used for pleasure trips on the River Thames and to maintain communications with the Queen's homeland of Portugal, making the journey twice. [11] Catherine fainted when Charles's official mistress, Barbara Palmer was presented to her.

  6. Scottish coronation of Charles II - Wikipedia

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    Charles was proclaimed king of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland. [7] As was traditional, the ancestry of Charles back to King Fergus was recited by James Balfour, as the Lyon King of Arms. [8] After the ceremonies in the chapel there was a banquet in the palace. [9] Charles knighted some Perthshire lairds on 2 January, then returned to ...

  7. George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - Wikipedia

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    George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 19th Baron de Ros, KG, PC, FRS (30 January 1628 – 16 April 1687) was an English statesman and poet who exerted considerable political power during the reign of Charles II of England. A Royalist during the English Civil War, in 1651 he joined Charles II's

  8. James II of England - Wikipedia

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    James II and VII (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685, until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution.

  9. Charles II, Duke of Savoy - Wikipedia

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    Charles II or Charles John Amadeus (Carlo Giovanni Amedeo in Italian) (23 June 1489, [citation needed] Turin, Piedmont – 16 April 1496), was the Duke of Savoy from 1490 to 1496 but his mother Blanche of Montferrat (1472–1519) was the actual ruler as a regent. [1]