For an excellent history of the monarchy in the United Kingdom, I highly recommend David Starkey’s series Monarchy, which he adapted from his latest book Crown & Country – The Kings and Queens of England: A History. He devotes a series to each major monarchy or dynasty (as in Royal House, like the Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Hanoverians) and narrates this history of this institution in his characteristic acerbic wit and wry historian’s sense of irony. At the risk of WordPress and SOPA shutting down Parliamentum, I’ll embed the main videos here.
The Middle Stuarts covers the Restoration to Glorious Revolution, Charles II and James II (1660-1689). History remembers the regicide of Louis XVI but forgets that England underwent similar political turmoil over 150 years before, but ultimately ended its republican experiment upon the Restoration of the Stuarts. The Parliamentarians had defeated the Royalists and committed the ultimate…
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