Charles II's difficulties with girls

Writing history, I began to view quite ordinary situations in a different light. Why should Charles II, in his youth, bother about children – his own or anyone else's? When his father was executed by Parliament in 1649, Charles II, as he became, was not yet 19. Time surely to be concentrating on his own youth rather than on the youth of the country. Charles II was a handsome man with the darkly attractive looks of his Medici ancestors. He would not lack for little friends, whether they were princesses or chambermaids. But the real question that occupied Europe after the death of Charles I was not so much the little prince or princess playing in the royal nursery, as the fine lady who might be seated on the royal…

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The Oldie (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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