![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps the original “good-time Charlie,” Charles gained the adoration of his subjects through his relaxed, convivial style and his unapologetic appetite for the many pleasures in life. Miraculously, however, Charles is remembered less for manning the helm during a succession of national disasters than he is for unleashing the joie de vivre of a people exhausted from the rigors of Puritanism. Returning from exile after Cromwell’s death-grip on the British Parliament, Charles was faced with the task of rebuilding the monarchy’s respectability and restoring morale to the populace against a backdrop of Bubonic plague, antipapist hysteria, humiliating wartime defeat, and the tragic Pudding Lane fire that decimated two-thirds of London. Charles II reigned during one of the most turbulent eras in England’s history. ![]()
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