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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.
Eleanor Gwyn (2 February 1650 – 14 November 1687; also spelled Gwynn, Gwynne) was an English stage actress and celebrity figure of the Restoration period. Praised by Samuel Pepys for her comic performances as one of the first actresses on the English stage, she became best known for being a longtime mistress of King Charles II of England (c. April 1668 – 6 February 1685).
Elizabeth joined the royalist court-in-exile of Queen Henrietta Maria as a maid of honour – where she became one of the many mistresses of the queen's son, the future King Charles II. [4] Her daughter Charlotte Jemia Henrietta Maria FitzRoy was fathered by the exiled Prince Charles in 1650. [5]
King Charles ascended to the throne on September 8, 2023, upon the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth. Robert Hardman's new biography takes us inside the first year of Charles's reign—"from the ...
King Charles has a special message for royal fans and well-wishers following his cancer diagnosis. This past weekend, the 75-year-old monarch shared a personal statement on the official royal ...
Henrietta Maria of France (French: Henriette Marie; 25 November [1] 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until his execution on 30 January 1649. She was the mother of Charles II and James II and VII.
King Charles is celebrating his 76th birthday, ... Charles, like his late mother Elizabeth II, ... Personal life. Charles’ personal life has seen many twists and turns over the years. From his ...
Titus Oates was born at Oakham in Rutland. His father Samuel (1610–1683), of a family of Norwich ribbon-weavers, [2] [3] was a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and became a minister who moved between the Church of England (sometime rector of Marsham, Norfolk) [2] and the Baptists; he became a Baptist during the English Civil War, [4]: 5 rejoining the established church at the ...