Platinum Jubilee

[The_Phenom]

@Wilkored08

Watching the Darkest Hour…grandson asks…as you know all this history…were u around in the 1800’s…gobsmacked!!!@

Reminds of 20+ years ago when my son was a little kiddie.
I was showing him old photos and he asked why some of them were in black & white.
After I explained that in those earlier days, there were no color pictures, he questioned: “are the people during those times in black & white?”

[redalways]

@Commando

The point I was making was that I (who am 24 years older than him) learned about British history in school and knew about the royal family and the line of succession.
He wasn’t even aware that we’d had two kings called Charles

But I think @PaulRoJo made a good point subsequently, why should one even care that there were two kings named Charles? Maybe the former was rather noteworthy given all the political changes surrounding his time, but what does it matter how many monarchs were called Charles?

[PaulRoJo]

@Commando

He wasn’t even aware that we’d had two kings called Charles

I’ve heard of King Charles cocker spaniel but what is the other one?

@Commando

I wonder what they’re taught nowadays?

Based on my 7 year old - albeit in Australia - there is a lot of stuff about first nations peoples and emotional literacy. I do worry that my boys will grow up without a solid knowledge about the royal lineage but I suppose they could always apply to read British History at Cambridge with John Morrill (if he’s still around). What a relief!

[Klopptimist]

Street party here, hic……

[Kopstar]

@Commando

He’s obviously not still at school. The point I was making was that I (who am 24 years older than him) learned about British history in school and knew about the royal family and the line of succession.
He wasn’t even aware that we’d had two kings called Charles. He left school twenty two years ago. I wonder what they’re taught nowadays?

I blame the parents

[Rambler]

Spending a few days in Sussex and was in a chocolate box village earlier today where there was a big celebration in the main street. Bizarrely one of the thatched roof cottages had a big banner saying…STOP NATO EXPANSION…

[Commando]

He had remarked about the Queen’s age and asked what’s happen when she passes? I said that Charles would become King and he said “so he’ll be King Charles”?
I said I believed from reading somewhere that he’ll be titled King George 7th. He thinks that ‘King Charles’ is unlucky due to the previous kings being executed and succeeded by a military government respectively.

[Bekloppt]

Those are both Charles 1st.
He lost his head and was succeeded by Cromwell.

Charles 2nd was a randy git (Nell Gwynne) who probably died of natural causes and was succeeded by James 2nd who was too much of a Catholic. Thus the ‘Glorious Revolution’, which was a coup by the king of Holland (Billy Orange).

[WooltonRed]

So, you’re about 360 yrs old then?

[Kopstar]

Yep, the restoration of the monarchy coincided with the start of what’s called the long 18th century, otherwise called the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason from 1660 to the late 1700s.

[Bekloppt]

@Kopstar

Yep, the restoration of the monarchy coincided with the start of what’s called the long 18th century, otherwise called the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason from 1660 to the late 1700s.

The Enlightenment was not only a British phenomenon of course.
It’s interesting to note how much of a role European influences played in Britain at that time. Charles 2nd was a refugee in France during the Commonwealth, William led a friendly takeover of Britain by the Dutch, and the Hannoverians, whose claim to the throne was extremely tenuous and who initially hardly spoke English, were brought over only because they weren’t Catholic. The very foundation of the modern British state is inextricably bound to Europe, something which seems to be forgotten today.

[redfanman]

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