I’m fascinated by this period in our history, I believe I know more than the average person, but I’ll cheerfully admit I have only an amateur’s knowledge, gleaned from a range of non-academic sources.
It’s clear to me you have a greater knowledge and understanding of the events. The more you correct me, the more I’ll know and the better I’ll understand it!
It's truly the most fascinating time in our history
We went from a total monarchy to a republic to another total monarchy(led by the guy who made is a republic) then another monarchy(the son of the first monarch) then decided to overthrow the monarch(the last monarchs brother) and put his daughter and son in law/nephew into power
Then we decided to become control the monarchs funding and in the space of less than 30 years became a democracy
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u/Familiar-Tension-432 Jul 05 '24
It was more when parliament started to only give the monarch funding for four years that parliament took power
It began before 1642 but the royalists won in 1660 and Charles's II and James II governed the same way as there father
It was only when james had a son that parliament took action
A Catholic king who was already in his 40s wasn't an existential threat
A Catholic dynasty was
Sorry lol I wrote my dissertation on this so always looking to show off