How Britain's Monarchy Almost Disappeared | Stuarts: Charles II | Absolute History
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- Опубликовано: 28 июн 2024
- Professor Kate Williams studies Charles II's reign through the Wynn family's eyes. From religious upheaval to fighting the Fire of London, we look at the indelible mark on the face of British history left behind in the wake of Charles II.
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It sounds like Cromwell didn't have any plans for the continuation of the Commonwealth. He had the opportunity to set up a democratic system in Britain which might have prevented the return of the monarchy, but he wasn't forward-thinking enough.
We need more programs about the Stuarts.
Have you ever watched the little Stuart movies?
@@novhome4674 No, never heard of them.
@@determineddi2044 I was just goofing around, Stuart little is a mouse, characterized in American movies.
Watch the Passion and the Power with Rufus Sewell.
When are those people going to tell the truth. King James and his people are Brown Skinned Black people.
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Feeling more passionate about history. Excellent Narrative. Thank you.
This is being commented on by Earl Spencer...he’s very knowledgeable and engaging....great voice...
Christmas did not return to Britain in anything approaching its medieval splendor until Dickens put out A Christmas Carol.
Love this. I can't imagine living during this time period. All I can think of is the rank smell.
Plague too
Agreed! I wouldn't last two hours if I time-traveled to back then.
pinkpugginz people smell rank now , everytime I go out there’s always someone reeking of excessive perfume . Or unwashed and devoid of deodorant. People just stink
pinkpugginz...you are thinking correctly. You would think if they were filthy in the 17th century they must have been really disgusting in the previous centuries, right? You'd be mistaken, because in the previous centuries, people took great care with their hygiene. Perfume was invented by the French to hide the atrocious body odor from not washing - the 17th century saw a regression in hygiene, because people thought the "Humours" were at fault for diseases not the lack of cleanliness, and not germs (they were "damned" when they got sick)...and forks were invented not for eating, but for scratching their scalps due to lice! Thank goodness we live in these times with soap and hot water!
If everyone stinks, you don't notice it! There was always snuff & tobacco.
I love your series on each dynasty.
Fire in a Dutch bakery burns down half of London.
Meanwhile the Dutch are at war with the English.
Propaganda: *_It was the French!_*
Londoners: _Seems legit_
Love the documentary. A little bit disappointed that it didn’t start with, “I love the people and the people love me”
Hahahha
I love this comment. I do. I really do.
So much that they restored the English monarchy
Of course! Horrible Histories must have served as a research source for this documentary. If not, they've been remiss!
@@escapistfromhell1543 Part Scottish, French, Italian and a little bit Dane......
Earl Spencer is a descendant of King Charles ll through one of his mistresses
Great history . Shocked to hear Earl Spencer’s voice!
Why are there suddenly 5 bloody minutes of the same ads before every single video???
I like the story of Charles II also because he was partly Italian as his mother was a Medici descendent..
Cromwell, a Robespierre before Robespierre
Oliver Cromwell had may facial imperfections: "paint me warts & all".... Yikes!👀
Among other things!😮
I've only recently discovered your channel, but my god I've learned a lot since then. I wish you were my teachers when I was still in school! But better learned late than never learned! Thank you!
27 of Cromwell's men dislike this video
The real story of the King of Bling! ;)
Charles ll was exactly what Britain needed after Charles l and Cromwell .
BRILLIANT! Finally an in depth documentary about the Stuarts and especially James 1.>>>
Sir Owen and Lady Grace are my favorites of the Wynne family. Practical, and survival-of- family minded. Keep away from the intrigues of court life and keep our people safe. That is their duty, and I respect that tremendously.
Thank you for this wonderful video time killer🖤 this was so nice because I loveeeeeeee historrrrryyyyyy!
this show is so interesting about history....and the host is lovely....
One of England’s greatest monarchs, RIP King
"[After his stroke], the Royal Physicians shaved off his hair, and applied white-hot glass to his skull, they put a sort of acid in his nostrils, they pumped him full of laxatives and enemas, and gave him tonics of "ground up man's skull," and then put poultices of pigeon droppings on his feet." As Monty Python would say: "Nobody expects the English Inquisition!"
Don't forget blood letting and application of leaches daily.
How about something about the 2 Stuart Queens?
Why is it impossible for me to find the Cronwell Edict of 1653 anywhere online?
Excellent!
Cromwell was better for the Catholics ?!?!
Ask your average Irishman !
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But he allowed Jews to return to England.
@@sirstephen9825 You are joking? right?
I don't know how much worse it could get for the Irish than eliminating rights and massacres
Fascinating I love this stuff: History!🤔
24:10 I feel this.
Little known fact about English-Dutch navy wars: Dutch cannon was better quality and shot further. And the Dutch had superior shipbuilding-, trade- and financing systems. Just one shipment in one ship of the line from Indonesia full of cloves sufficed to finance the whole of the English fleet, and every year there were over 250 of them coming back (Source: Samuel Pepys and, more recently, professor Schama in The Embarrasment of Riches.). The Glorious Revolution that deposed James II brought the English a Dutch king, William III, and he brought along with him the knowhow for ships, cannon, finance, far-flung trade. This made the English golden age possible, which lasted from about 1700 till 1940. It was a clever move by the English: if you can't fight them, join them. This is what they did. They did it in such a clever way that the Dutch faded away in history and the English become a world-dominant power, controlling 25% of all lands and populations. Of course, English long for the old days of yore. Till this day, the English at large have not come to terms with the new reality that they have become a second rate country, after USA, China and Japan, and, soon, after India and the EU. This is an extremely hard grind, especially for people born in families the trust funds of which hail back to exploits in the glorious old hay days, viz. people like Jacob RM, Boris J, and their ilk.
Well written comment. Well done.
p.s. America is #1 (from an American obviously)
You do not throw away your winter garb at the first bud of spring... snows may return as quickly as they were banished.... hmmmm makes you think 🤔
Catholics had an easier time under Cromwell than under the monarchy? What evidence is that based on?
Well, for one, people who are alive have to pay for housing; when you’re dead, no more property tax.
There are a handful of British narrator s that I enjoy listening to. Clean clear search and excellent content !!
Of course they had it easier, just ask the Irish!
Ireland suffered terribly.
I couldn't imagine dressing in all those heavy clothes everday!😳
I wouldn't mind wearing those in winter. They look beautiful!
Cajun...a wealthy person's duty was to employ people to do everyday tasks! When you have servants who think it's awesome to be around you, dressing you (hence, no privacy) putting on your shoes (by then you can't bend to tie anything - well, shoes could come after the hose and before corset and other "stuff"). Dresses were in pieces (remember the Brits have awful cold weather, and layers were to keep you warm), so they had to be in some order! Geez!
Salut l'amie Cajun !
"...they made pwepawations in Euwope to wetun home." What dialect is this? Or is it a speech impediment? Forgive my ignorance, as I'm obviously not from the UK, but I would seriously like to know.
I love history on RUclips.
Is one of the commentators the Earl Spencer?
Yes. I think so.
I zoned out like five minutes in but the voices are nice to listen to lol
Ha ha....as I read your comment I realized that I had zoned out too !!
Love the history. My extended family includes Anne Hyde and the daughters of James II and Anne, Queens Mary II and Queen Anne. We share a common great grandfather, Rev. Francis Denman.
Sure pal, anything you say....
@@blueneckbeard47 it's true, as a direct descendant of the Rurikovich family I approve this message
I swear Orwynn Gwynn is kinda like the chill Ouya Ohtori (Ourann Highschool Host Club)-type...
Among the details I find most interesting are Ms. Williams' clothing and hairstyle, which strongly recall MALE dress during the reign of Charles II.
Yhea! first for once, thanks for the rad video!!!
I bet all the paintings got burned too. Charles' image is totally revamped too not just the glorious edifaces. But at least they kept the curly black hair. Key words to look up: mudflood and swarthy.
the pomp and ceremonies of the pompous. Well, Ferryman time.
22:15 "a nation of tea-drinkers was born". Never knew that the Portuguese drank tea. Presumably they acquired it from India?
We drank tea before anybody else in Europe.
@@fatimaclementinadiasteixei8097 yup, the Portuguese were the first to import tea into Europe from China.
Me- wants to watch something educational- (clicks link to this vid) counts 50 commercials (rage quits app) welcome to RUclips in 2020.
I am about to blow your mind!
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Ótima playlist estou com one vídeo oculto e não consigo assistir
After that brief and uneasy alliance, the English and the French would never be on the same side until WW1- almost 300 years later
The material on the Great Plague makes for sober watching today.
I just keep thinking of George Sanders...😂🍀
What did Cromwell die of? Was he bumped off?
He might have been poisoned, but most historians think he died of malaria. (There are quite a few theories.)
4:11 the image is of the painting depicting "The Battle of Rocroi".
Has nothing to do with the English Civil Wars.
It was fought between the Spanish and the French during the 30 Years War.
Oops.
This is a part of a series which includes the 30-years war and its effect on Britain.
What about Stuart little?
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Poor King Charles. His life was truly tragic. And filled with bad luck.
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Charles The second!
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Yes!
I love the people and the people love me
Thanks a lot, next semester I'll be thirty five?
History ❤
A great documentation. Just a bit weird that some people are dressed in late 18th century costumes. Just why?
People you better get out from under your rock you are under and realize this ain"t gonna never end good for us. They are all my cousins, but they can not seem to get over the past. If we don't stand against them, this will be our future.
Stewart descendant checking in.....
From which mistress? Just curious! (unless it's from his brother or cousin?)
@@determineddi2044 My Great Grandmother was a Mary Lennox Stewart. I have no idea but will soon with genealogical research. I'm too busy tracing John McGregor's and Robert Cameron's (my Grandfather was both). Are you a Stewart too?
@@katherinesage please grow up kid
Same here but not this line. My last reigning ancestor was James V. Father of Mary Queen of Scots.
Steven Wright well hello kin.... feel free to Facebook me @katiesage n send friend request!
Cromwell, murderer, traitor, What!
The theatre inserts are silly and wrong on so many levels, lol. From costumes to speech.
Hey, you gotta go with it.
The one thing that I always find surprising about Charles II is that he never managed to have a legitimate child, but at the same time had like 14-15 illegitimate children...some of whose descendants still continue today at the highest echelon of British nobility. Funny...
The number of commercial break makes it unwatchable!
Seriously.... HOW MANY OLIVER CROMWELLS ARE THERE SINCE ELIZABETH I'S TIME????
Horrible Histories Slimy Stuart's brought me here 🤷😂
They loved decapitation back then.
I guess lighting folk on fire fell out of fashion by then.
I guess it's very Tudor-ish for them so they chose a different style
Is Oliver Cromwell is the descendant of the Cromwell of Henry VIII?
Thomas Cromwell was his great great great uncle I think
The Stuarts will return to the throne when William is king since Diana was a direct descendant of 2 of Charles II's mistresses.
Oo nga no... You're right, if Technicallity is allowed. I mean you gotta remember that Diana's line is illegitimate which ain't counted unless needed.
@@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752 or by act of parliament, there was only two legally illegitimate people in the line of succession and they both ruled.
Christian P you are assuming that the monarchy survives and the people don’t rebel over William’s poor work ethics. Can’t see him as an asset to the country.william has all he can do to appear at one public appearance monthly. Can’t see him putting in the work to reign over the whole country and, Kate will be no help to him Kate is obsessed with the children and not public responsibility to the nation. Prince William is a very poor representative of the monarchy. And far too weak to rule. He has never even held a full time job. How can William possibly understand the demands of a whole nation.
@@gailhandschuh1138 there is so much wrong on what you put.
found out Charles II is one of my great great great etc... grandaddy's.
Sure pal.
Yes. Makes our pandemic seem less so. But we have our own Charles II in US.
In before the black Israelites claim he and the entire Stuart family were black. 🤣
I dunno about black Israelites, but there was a large influx of Jews into Scotland. And it's very easy to see. Some old paintings and pictures from the 1400's-1600's has some Scots looking, surprisingly, Jewish. So, I guess it's true. They have Scottish names, yet look very Jewish.
Whaaat? Really? I need to look into that!
Lmfao those guys are braindead.
Thwone.
The gwate plague
It's hard to take this seriously when the date of his reign is incorrect. Charles became king in 1660, not 1661.
Please grow up little kid
@@evilpimp2475 If the writers of the program can't even get simple, obvious dates right, should we trust them with complicated motives, results, etc.?
They said he was declared king in 1660. She talked about him being declared king in in 1660, coming back to England and parading through London just before and on his 30th birthday which was in 1660 (there’s even a banner in the picture they show that says 1660). His coronation was in 1661. I didn’t even hear any of them say 1661 at all, I watched that part twice through when I saw this comment because I was curious if they did get it wrong, but I didn’t hear it personally.
Philip Webb as far as I can tell, they didn’t get it wrong.
You're wrong. They never said 1661. Try 16:40, where it's even on screen as 1660.
You should pay attention before slagging them for your own mistake.
Great documantary but that bloody annoying presenter needs to work on american television...only!
Did she take speech lessons from Wusy Worsey?
I feel like we could have been spaire the cheeesy unncessisary historical reenactment.
At around 11 minutes, our host forgets she's meant to talk of the son, not of Charles I; Ithought I was watching the wrong episode, that's all! So for enemies, it was divine intervention/retribution when a terrible accident occurred? Louis XIV played the Brits shamefully, because he, Louis, did not honor the Treaty of Dover. Louis messed around with both the English and the Dutch, playing them against each other...
The last BRITISH king.
If england ever had a good king..it was charles the first
And what has the pope ever done for us.
Eeauu-hupp...and here I've been pronouncing it, 'Europe,' all these years.
Noice
I see, you too, have a Brehesh accent lighk mighself.
Maaaa! Those wigs! Disgust!
i love how they have PRESERVED---their history ---the good, the bad, the ugly---warts and all......ALLLLLL the way back to when god said "let there be light." while america is in the process of tearing anything and everything down that IS PART OF HISTORY and labeled it all "offensive...." much in life CAN be offensive----let's do away with life too while we're at it. makes about as much sense. you have to see where you've been to know where your going....maybe nobody has "direction" anymore so....history is no longer needed....we can re-do the mistakes so we can do it allll over again----won't that be fun?
It's not just America, Everywhere in the west is going threw a revisionist movement. It's all carefully conspired and by the same people.
Professor Kate Williams is a hot woman
Sigh... time for another EU4 campaign.
great docu about a manky scots git
Lord how I detest "re-enactments", the plague of modern-day documentaries and the antithesis of what film documentaries are supposed to be. A well-researched and written documentary has no need for them. And the "actors" appearing in these pointless "dramatic scenes" are obviously those who failed at a career in real films.
These men were of African decent..
No
Umm his complexion was swarthy lol lol the modern Europeans changing history again.
Saladin was a white man
Don't even go there
That's exactly what you are doing, lying dog
@@charliebrown5755 🐕 woof woof!
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His complexion wasn't swarthy, you must dumb asf if you believe that. Y'all are always trying to Appropriate other people's history lmfao.
Pitiful typical male games of gaining another higher step on the male pecking order.
What is it with ye olde aristocrats and their damn wigs?!
Lice.
The world is lucky we (America) don't conquer it. We could if we wanted to 🇺🇸
No we couldn't. The combined total of the world's armies are 100x that of the US Military. Don't be silly.
Nov Home we are lucky the world does not conquer us . We are no longer the world superpower, we haven’t been for some time .
Le Monke it wasn’t Charles ll. He slept with many ladies but no relatives . He had many mistresses and illegitimate children but no incest