Charles II: The Court in Exile
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- After Charles I died, the Stuart court was found in the Low Countries. Charles II rented mansions for his monarchy. This lecture is about those mansions.
A lecture by Simon Thurley, Visiting Professor of the Built Environment
18 March 2020 6:00pm UK Time
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For a decade after the execution of Charles I the Stuart courts were based in the Low Countries and France. Always short of money, but determined to maintain splendour and dignity, Charles II rented a series of mansions and used them as the headquarters of the exiled monarchy. These hitherto unknown royal ‘palaces’ became the nursery of courtly fashion and etiquette where the king and his courtiers developed tastes that were to fundamentally fashion the art and architecture of Restoration England.
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Elisabeth Stuart was in the Hague in exile also ? Queen of Bohemia
Charles ii pardoned my 6th great grandfather who was French. He was convicted to death as being an enemy of the state. Charles let him survive if he worked for the Spanish Empire, in which he did. I guess he wasn’t that bad.
Wait what? An English King spared a Frenchman under the condition that he works for the Spanish? I feel like there is something missing to the story.