Frasi di Carlo II d'Inghilterra

Carlo II Stuart è stato re d'Inghilterra, Scozia, Irlanda e Francia dal 30 gennaio 1649 o dal 29 maggio 1660 , al 6 febbraio 1685.

Secondo i realisti, Carlo divenne re il 30 gennaio del 1649 quando suo padre, Carlo I Stuart, fu decapitato dinanzi alla residenza reale, il palazzo di Whitehall. Tuttavia il parlamento si rifiutò di proclamare Carlo re, e in Inghilterra ebbe inizio il periodo repubblicano, sotto il protettorato di Oliver Cromwell, che divenne lord protettore del Commonwealth britannico. Al contrario, il parlamento di Scozia nominò Carlo re di Scozia il 5 febbraio 1649 nella città di Edimburgo. Fu incoronato re di Scozia presso Scone il 1º gennaio 1651. Dopo la battaglia di Worcester del 3 settembre 1651 fu costretto a lasciare l'Inghilterra e si rifugiò per i nove anni che seguirono tra Francia, Repubblica delle Province Unite e Paesi Bassi del Sud.

Quando nel 1659 il protettorato retto da Richard Cromwell, figlio di Oliver, cadde, il generale George Monck invitò formalmente Carlo a tornare in patria dove avrebbe governato da re. Il 25 maggio del 1660 Carlo sbarcò sul suolo inglese e il 29, giorno del suo trentesimo compleanno, entrò trionfalmente a Londra. Il 23 aprile 1661 venne incoronato re d'Inghilterra, Scozia e Irlanda nell'abbazia di Westminster, come tradizione. Nel 1679 Carlo decise di abolire il parlamento e governò da sovrano assoluto fino al giorno della sua morte, avvenuta il 6 febbraio del 1685.

Carlo II fu noto anche con il nome Merrie Monarch , a sottolineare il clima di edonismo della sua corte e il sollievo generale procurato dal ritorno a una situazione di normalità dopo l'esperienza repubblicana con i Cromwell e i puritani. La moglie di Carlo, Caterina di Braganza, era sterile, tuttavia il sovrano ebbe dodici figli illegittimi con varie amanti. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Maggio 1630 – 6. Febbraio 1685
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Carlo II d'Inghilterra: Frasi in inglese

“I asked the smith what news? He told me that there was no news that he knew of, since the good news of the beating of the rogues the Scots.”

As quoted by Philibert de Gramont (1701), in Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second (1846) by Anthony Hamilton, edited by Sir Walter Scott.
Contesto: Mrs. Lane and I took our journey towards Bristol, resolving to lie at a place called Long Marson, in the vale of Esham.
But we had not gone two hours on our way but the mare I rode on cast a shoe; so we were forced to ride to get another shoe at a scattering village, whose name begins with something like Long—. And as I was holding my horse's foot, I asked the smith what news? He told me that there was no news that he knew of, since the good news of the beating of the rogues the Scots. I asked him whether there was none of the English taken that joined with the Scots? He answered, that he did not hear that that rogue Charles Stewart was taken; but some of the others, he said, were taken, but not Charles Stewart. I told him, that if that rogue were taken he deserved to be hanged, more than all the rest, for bringing in the Scots. Upon which he said, that I spoke like an honest man, and so we parted.

“I told him, that if that rogue were taken he deserved to be hanged, more than all the rest, for bringing in the Scots. Upon which he said, that I spoke like an honest man, and so we parted.”

As quoted by Philibert de Gramont (1701), in Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second (1846) by Anthony Hamilton, edited by Sir Walter Scott.
Contesto: Mrs. Lane and I took our journey towards Bristol, resolving to lie at a place called Long Marson, in the vale of Esham.
But we had not gone two hours on our way but the mare I rode on cast a shoe; so we were forced to ride to get another shoe at a scattering village, whose name begins with something like Long—. And as I was holding my horse's foot, I asked the smith what news? He told me that there was no news that he knew of, since the good news of the beating of the rogues the Scots. I asked him whether there was none of the English taken that joined with the Scots? He answered, that he did not hear that that rogue Charles Stewart was taken; but some of the others, he said, were taken, but not Charles Stewart. I told him, that if that rogue were taken he deserved to be hanged, more than all the rest, for bringing in the Scots. Upon which he said, that I spoke like an honest man, and so we parted.

“Let not poor Nelly starve.”

On his deathbed, asking that his favourite mistress, Nell Gwynne, be looked after, as quoted in History of My Own Time (1734), by Gilbert Burnet, Vol.II, Bk.iii, Ch. 17

“If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.”

To the Earl of Manchester, as quoted in the notes to Hudibras (1674), Part 1, Canto 1, by Samuel Butler, edited by Henry George Bohn, (1859)

“He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.”

As quoted in A History of England (1849) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Vol. I, Ch. 4, p. 437

“Better than a play!”

On the House of Lords' debate on Lord Ross's Divorce Bill (1610), as quoted in King Charles the Second (1931) by Arthur Bryant

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