![]() ![]() ![]() With Charles' every shortcoming or misdeed justified on pragmatic grounds, he cuts an attractive, purposeful figure-he is the orphaned heir, steeled in exile, who is determined to maintain the kingship his father lost. More important, she has a post-Sixties empathy for Restoration liberality combined with a post-Holocaust (and, perhaps, personal) abhorrence for the persecution of Catholics which followed deviously in its train. She has rooted through the sources, contemporary and modern and she takes up the contested points. In 1660, Charles Stuart the second was suddenly and tumultously restored to the English throne, ten years after the beheading of his father Charles I by order of a Commonwealth court and though the amiable, cynical, pleasure-loving Charles II remained a popular favorite in afteryears (see Ollard, below), history's harsher, doctrinaire judgment has only recently eased-a process capped by Fraser's big, benevolent biography. ![]()
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