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  1. 3 days ago · In 1677 Juan José led an army against Madrid and made himself Charles II’s principal minister. This first pronunciamiento , or military coup, inaugurated a tradition that was to bear bitter fruit in the political life of Spain and Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  2. 1 day ago · Charles II of Spain (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) 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.

  3. 4 days ago · A historic prayer book belonging to the priest who protected King Charles II and helped save his life has gone on public display at one of England’s famous stately homes.

  4. 3 days ago · He arranged the marriage of Charles’s brother James’s eldest daughter, Mary (later Mary II), to William of Orange (later William III), the Dutch stadtholder. Yet, like the king, Danby admired Louis XIV and the French style of monarchy.

  5. 5 days ago · King Charles followed in his mother Queen Elizabeth II's footsteps when he opted to wear the St Edward's Crown for his coronation; a purple crown with a white fluffy trim, and a huge number of...

  6. 4 days ago · In God's Name, provide full Remedies for any future Mischiess; be as severe as you will against new Offenders, especially if they be so upon Old Principles, and pull up those Principles by the Roots.

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  8. 5 days ago · The second Parliament of Charles II. met on May 8, 1661. It was full of high-flying Royalists eager to assert their principles both by their legislation and their resolutions. "It cannot be expressed, hardly imagined," writes Clarendon, "with what alacrity the Parliament entered upon all particular affairs which might refer to the Kings honour ...

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