Nel’s Reviews > The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr > Status Update

things are getting dicey for baby charles.

“The son of a clothier from Reading, Laud was, in private, a gentle intellectual who loved his cats and kept a dream diary in which he wrote of erotic encounters with the late Duke of Buckingham”

so the archbishop of canterbury had a secret diary with wet dreams about buckingham??? 17 century england was just built different.

“Charles was hearing divine service when a messenger whispered to him what had occurred. As the horror sank in he ‘continued unmoved without the least change in his countenance, till prayers were ended, when he suddenly departed to his chamber, and threw himself upon his bed, lamenting with much passion and with abundance of tears."

poor baby charles. ):
he also had Buckingham buried near King James awwww

“Buckingham, however, was now encouraging Charles into a war with France that would see the British kingdoms fighting both of the great powers–France and Spain–at once.”

olivares on one side, richelieu on the other. and george being the match of neither - some good things are sure to come. (he was probably hoping for a dance off lets be real)

“Charles dashed to see him and stayed at his brother’s bedside while doctors treated Henry by tying a dead pigeon to his head.”

pre-modern medicine never stops being a (dark) comedy.

buckingham famously called him baby charles. and im going to continue this tradition.