#King Charles II

[vox-anglosphere]

On this day in 1660, Charles II rode into London as Britain's new king.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Trooping The Colour 2024

Prince William, Colonel of the Welsh Guards, rides down The Mall on horseback after attending Trooping the Colour on 15 June 2024 in London, England.

Trooping the Colour, also known as The King's Birthday Parade, is a military ceremony to mark the official birthday of the British Sovereign.

The ceremony takes place at Horse Guards Parade followed by a flypast over Buckingham Palace and was first performed in the mid-17th century during the reign of King Charles II.

The parade features all seven regiments of the Household Division with Number 9 Company, Irish Guards being the regiment this year having their Colour Trooped.

📸: Max Mumby / Indigo / Getty Images

[kindercelery]

This is not a wig 😒

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as King Charles II

Hudson's Bay (1941)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

John Michael Wright (English, 1617-1694) Charles II, King of England, n.d. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

[wav3y-zzz]

Can you please draw more of King Charles the Second because I do not !!! understand his physiognomy (he is in a perennial state of cringe)

Here he is, just for you mr Anonymous, I understand wanting to remain anonymous as being the only Charles fan on Earth would be pretty embarrassing 😳 Charlie my boy, my son and biggest opp, a sight to be seen and a force NOT to be reckoned with

Also the ladies do NOTTTTTT love him, I don't think he really loves the ladies though tbh

[harbarytka]

[dibonesfan]

i dont know how to explain it he simoly just serves mad cunt

[majestativa]

And love he loves, for he loves fucking much.

— John Wilmot/Earl of Rochester, Selected Works, on King Charles, (2004)

[roehenstart]

King Charles II (1630-1685) in Garter Robes. By Henri Gascars.

[catboygee]

Party on, Amen

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Mug, 1663, England.

[ltwilliammowett]

The arrival of King Charles II of England in Rotterdam, 24 May 1660, by Lieve Pietersz. Verschuier, 1665

[kindercelery]

(Thank you CapCut for making everything out of sync)

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1671 – Irish adventurer, Colonel Thomas Blood, dresses as a clergyman and attempts to steal the British crown jewels from the Tower of London. He is arrested in possession of the crown jewels.

In London, Thomas Blood, an Irish adventurer better known as ‘Captain Blood,’ is captured attempting to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.   Blood, a Parliamentarian during the English Civil War, was deprived of his estate in Ireland with the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660. In 1663, he put himself at the head of a plot to seize Dublin Castle from supporters of King…

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

English School of the 17th century Double portrait of King Charles II (1630-1685) and Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705), ca.1665