historyisthebestkindofstory: viceversailles-deactivated20130: FAVOURITE SAVAGE SONGS |&nbs

historyisthebestkindofstory: viceversailles-deactivated20130: FAVOURITE SAVAGE SONGS | KING OF BLING[ ♔ ]  If you don’t think history is the best story ever, you CLEARLY have never read about Charles II. WHERE DO WE EVEN BEGIN WITH CHARLIE? Long story short, Charles’ father Charles I got beheaded by Oliver Cromwell for whom you may all be assured there is a very special place in Hell and his Parliament in 1649, at which time little Charlie fled to France and stayed there until the English people realized that a regime that bans Christmas needs to NOT.  So, in the words of the above song, in 1660* “When Ollie died the people said ‘Charlie me hearty, Get rid of his dull laws, come back, we’d rather party!’ This act is what was known as the monarchy Restoration, which naturally was followed by a huge celebration.“ Seriously, go watch it. And party HE DID.  When you’ve gone through eleven years of austerity and NO FREAKING CHRISTMAS, you have a lot of time to make up for. And he totally made up for it. Charles II wasn’t just awesome because he brought back the monarchy and partied like it was 1659.  The guy was a genuine babe, and had more mistresses than any of us can really count.  But actually, historians don’t even know the real number for certain. Charles wasn’t an ass about it, either.  Well, as much as a man with an indefinite amount of mistresses can avoid being an ass.  His mistresses bore him fourteen children on whom he bequeathed titles and fully acknowledged, and he took pains to uphold the comfort of his mistresses after they had left court.  His favorite, Nell Gwynne, was a source of worry for him, being twenty years his junior.  On his deathbed, he told his successor James I, “Do not let poor Nelly starve!”   *Oliver Cromwell died in 1658.  He was succeeded by his son, Richard, who was forced into exile in 1659 with the return of Charles II, who was crowned in 1660 and died in 1685. -- source link

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