Timothy Dalton in Cromwell

Prince Rupert is banished.

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[rexel666]

Alec Guinness's portrayal of Charles Stuart is simply superb. One of the finest and yet understated performances of all time

[Arnieluvsshred91]

Yes it appears like it was long coming but the fact is that as late as the parliaments of 1640-41, the Commons had no intention of going to war with the king and it was in fact a group of army radicals who signed his death warrant in late 1648. Most of them had no intention of killing Charls. However I agree with you that he was not evil. Pym believed he was misguided by "evil" advisors such as Stafford and Laud when parliament returned after Personal Rule

[baraxor]

How can a sovereign king be a traitor when all loyalty in the kingdom is supposed to be bent to the royal person?

BTW, the person of the Queen is still protected from imprisonment by the law of treason, and cannot be held accountable to the law. Politically accountable, yes, but not judicially.

[laganuk]

Charles believed in the Divine Right of Kings. In 1690 his son James vacated the throne and his daughter and husband William where made Queen and King with a social contract with Parliament called the Bill of Rights.

[bollockchops55]

charles was a traitor and got what was coming to him

[mc0558]

No personal information.

[SophiaDarkraven]

This will probably be the last time I will visit this comment area. I have lingered too long in it as it is. Do you by any chance teach history or work in an area that requires historical knowledge? If you don't you may want to consider it as you are a diamond ^.^

[mc0558]

Sophia Darkraven

I think James and Charles tried to preserve what they saw as the Tutor style of kingship, but they missed the subtlities of Tudor rule. The Tudors controled parliament from the inside. They won MP and Lords support for government policy through bribery and corruption. James and Charles confronted parliament head on and it ruined them. It really is not until you get to William III that you get back to the Tudor way of politics--inside control and manipulation to win the vote.

[mc0558]

You know that the landed gentry were badly affected by massive inflation that resulted from Spain's importation of huge amounts of Aztec and Peruvian gold into Europe. (This is the time of the Fronde in France.) So there was social uprest that arose from circumstances over which Charles had no control.

However, faced with these challenges, the early Stuart's tried and failed to do in Britain what Mazarin and Louis XVI succeeded in doing in France--rule in their own right, without parliament.

[SophiaDarkraven]

I can see your point. So would it be fair to say his downfall was how his father brought him up? Or just his own ambition as a man and king?

[mc0558]

Charles I pretty much followed on with the foolish policies and unpopular parctices of his father, James I. (Have a look especially at the attempt to raise moneyh by reviving feudal dues--escheatment--and the forcing of people to become knights and baronets)

Charles' brother died when Chas was 11; so James had 12 years in which to prepare Chas for kingship. (You can train a heart surgeon in that time.) I think James succeeded very well in creating an even more reckless version of himself.