If you read this column regularly, you’ll probably recall that the early culture of colonial Charles Town in many ways reflected the personality of its namesake, England’s King Charles II. Given ...
Born at the end of a long line of inbreeding, Charles II suffered ill-health for his entire, albeit short, life. Badly disfigured, he was believed unfit to rule and during his life, most of the power ...
MERRY MONARCH: THE LIFE AND LIKENESS OF CHARLES II (274 pp.)—Hesketh Pearson—Harper ($5). On the night of Nov. 4, 1677, a few hours after he had, for certain umbrous reasons of state, brought about a ...
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