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Thanks to #ebooks, there's still time to send a #Christmas 🎁 anywhere in the world. How about a bio of #CharlesII age 0–30? A close look at Old Rowley when young He's even a virgin for several chapters! For now, on offer on #Kindle www.amazon.com/Charles-II-C... www.amazon.co.uk/Charles-II-C...

As my next 📖 involves obscure people in #history, I've felt my #research skills improving, but now I'm at Chapter 24 of the #PrinceRupert bio by @1642author.bsky.social and...wow. Mark built up cipher keys, then used them to decode letters. As a result, there's so much new insight in his book.😎 #ECW

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#otd 1658 Under Richard Cromwell, a #GeneralElection is called. Royalist candidates are barred, but exiled #CharlesII has men play a game of deceit. If that fails, he may try other plans. Two, though, need enemy collusion. www.amazon.com/dp/1399064517 😉 #politics #Parliament #restoration #republic

I've never liked Digby (2nd Earl of Bristol), and @1642author.bsky.social's Rupert bio assures me I shouldn't.😆 It examines Rupert–Digby discord, starting with a 1642 tale, and explains the discord would 'erode the Royalist cause from within'. Good theory re where it began, too! #ECW #17thC #royals

🎄5⃣ DECEMBER🎄 (25 Days of books from Prince Rupert's library) 'Principum Christianorum Stemmata' by Antonio Albizzi detailed pedigrees of the leading European royal houses. It contained 46 full or double-page copper engravings by Dominicus Custos ... continued

Christmas reading 2025 – historical books to give or to treat yourself to, by Historia Editor Frances Owen historiamag.com/xmas-reading... @historia-hwa.bsky.social #Reading

“Richly researched and beautifully told, Bess – Tudor Gentlewoman captures the hidden lives of the Elizabethan world.” mybook.to/BESS #Elizabethan #Tudors #TudorHistory #HistFic #HistoricalFiction #Audiobooks

CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words, Episode 44 - The Youth of Charles II, Prince of Wales, with Author Claire Hobson: www.buzzsprout.com/1194917/epis... @1642author.bsky.social @restorationhat.bsky.social #Stuarts #Podcast

The latest episode (44) covers Charles II's youth. Here, @restorationhat.bsky.social tells us about Charles's split with mistress Lucy Walter and the care of their son, James. #CavalierCast #historypodcast #17thCenturyHistory #EnglishCivilWar #historylovers

Special Guest Post by Claire Hobson, Author of Charles II: From the Cradle to the Crown tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/10/spec... @restorationhat.bsky.social #Stuarts #History

Huge thanks to Mark! But agh, sorry! I was playing this & realised I say here that in exile Charles sought to wed Protestants only, but there were exceptions later in the exile. I should have clarified. I wouldn't mind so much if it were amusing, but I can't even do decent #bloopers. 😂 #history

Latest Episode - #CavalierCast podcast. Claire Hobson discusses the formative years of Charles II and the traumatic events that scarred them. 👂Listen on your usual podcast platform, or via www.buzzsprout.com/1194917

Writing about Lady Lucy Bedford as Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons in the Masque of Queens 1609 #Stuarts

📅#OTD 1671, Thomas Fairfax died. Find out more about the leader of the New Model Army by listening to episode 11 of #CavalierCast podcast: Professor Andrew Hopper, Nick Lipscombe & MJ Logue discuss. 👂buzzsprout.com/1194917

Huge thanks to Mark! But agh, sorry! I was playing this & realised I say here that in exile Charles sought to wed Protestants only, but there were exceptions later in the exile. I should have clarified. I wouldn't mind so much if it were amusing, but I can't even do decent #bloopers. 😂 #history

With big thanks to @1642author.bsky.social My first author interview! Hear me nervous & excited in conversation re pre-Restoration #CharlesII: #childhood developing understanding fears military role relationships with #women alternative restoration plans #ECW #c17 www.buzzsprout.com/1194917/epis...

Charles II (my book) has been out in the world for 4½ months. So shouldn't it look like this? Instead it apparently looks like Mr Bean (see cover). www.amazon.com/Charles-II-C... 😆😆 #publishing #babies #cute #cuteness #silly #CharlesII #history #royals #art #comedy #Stuart #17thC #RowanAtkinson

Charles II (my book) has been out in the world for 4½ months. So shouldn't it look like this? Instead it apparently looks like Mr Bean (see cover). www.amazon.com/Charles-II-C... 😆😆 #publishing #babies #cute #cuteness #silly #CharlesII #history #royals #art #comedy #Stuart #17thC #RowanAtkinson

🌟Quick! 30% off!🌟 pen-and-sword.co.uk/Charles-II-H... amazon.co.uk/dp/1399064517 My research for this book fascinated me, particularly re Charles II's #mentalhealth & developing views. Young Charles was in private turmoil while his public persona shone. #history #war #royals #revolution #discount

🌟Quick! 30% off!🌟 pen-and-sword.co.uk/Charles-II-H... amazon.co.uk/dp/1399064517 My research for this book fascinated me, particularly re Charles II's #mentalhealth & developing views. Young Charles was in private turmoil while his public persona shone. #history #war #royals #revolution #discount

All by @alternatehistorian.bsky.social – I deserve no credit at all, but it's lovely if 'Cradle' inspired this. Glad Carolina & her father are mutually supportive. I also like the potential husbands! And 'laughed England back to life' – yeah, baby!👍😂 Now, does she fancy men or women? #fantasy

chasquiswritingworld.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/s... #comedy #standupcomedy #humour #humor #grammar #surrealism #1980s #WritingCommunity #writing #blog Apologies for gaps in the piece but it looked fine in draft but transferring to website created these and I have been unable to rectify the problem

Guest Post by Claire Hobson, Author of Charles II: From the Cradle to the Crown: Revolution, conspiracy, sex, ceremony and the secrets of royal childhood - some surprises to be found in Restoration history. tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/10/spec... @restorationhat.bsky.social #Stuarts #History

Special Guest Post by Claire Hobson, Author of Charles II: From the Cradle to the Crown ~ now available on Kindle tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/10/spec... @restorationhat.bsky.social #Stuarts #BookLaunch

Time waits for nomad. 35% OFF Charles II: From the Cradle to the Crown www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1399064517 Offer ends soon. Reviews say 🗨️'engaging, well-researched, high-drama biography' 🗨️'also works as a quick overview of the English Civil War' 🗨️'delves into nuances' #ECW @penandswordbooks.bsky.social

#Kindle 'Cradle' 68% & 56% off: amazon.ca/Charles-II-C... & amazon.com/Charles-II-C... respectively ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Using an impressive range of evidence, Hobson ... examines the ... influences that combined to make Charles both 'the Merry Monarch' and an untrustworthy arch-dissembler" #history #discounts

He did! He gets little credit for the fact Parliament invited him to rule after the Cromwellian & republican era, but they didn't have to choose #CharlesII. If he'd developed differently, they may not have invited him. And they knew he was, as you say, a little dodgy. #history #politics #monarchy

#Kindle 'Cradle' 68% & 56% off: amazon.ca/Charles-II-C... & amazon.com/Charles-II-C... respectively ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Using an impressive range of evidence, Hobson ... examines the ... influences that combined to make Charles both 'the Merry Monarch' and an untrustworthy arch-dissembler" #history #discounts

Time waits for nomad. 35% OFF Charles II: From the Cradle to the Crown www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1399064517 Offer ends soon. Reviews say 🗨️'engaging, well-researched, high-drama biography' 🗨️'also works as a quick overview of the English Civil War' 🗨️'delves into nuances' #ECW @penandswordbooks.bsky.social

Obviously you have to imagine the disguise. The pic doesn't quite represent it. 😂 For a start, his hair had been cut short, with agricultural shears!

Charmouth #otd 1651 A ship fails to come & rescue fugitive #CharlesII. At an inn he's waited all night. Now he kisses the landlady 🤨 & leaves, disguised. He doesn't hear an onlooker identify him. Charles is off to Bridport, but rage leads him to such 'rudeness', he takes a big risk. #royal #escape

Reading Claire Hobson's book "Charles II: From the Cradle to the Crown" tinyurl.com/26rvwdjb which is not only brilliantly insightful but very cleverly written making you realize what you're missing with Generative AI! @restorationhat.bsky.social

Despite talking about a different rescue attempt, I'm flattered that my mentioning a rescue has led to this. Interesting reference to illegitimacy in this scenario too! Louis was younger in reality than here, but Mazarin would certainly have been busy if Charles I had got to Saint-Germain in 1648.

I like the fact this sees Catholicism upheld with Anglicanism accommodated.

In Prince Rupert? Elsewhere in #Canada? Charles II: From the Cradle to the Crown now on amazon.ca/Charles-II-C... 🇨🇦 Rupert has more mentions than I thought. As do: nasty Richard Grenville drunken Henry Wilmot bold uprisings/insurgence (indexing = hard work) #royalhistory #ECW #monarchy #Stuarts

Sep 1659 MISSING After a rising for him fails, #CharlesII has vanished. Arrest threatens him in France, and he's creeping south but sent no word to his advisers in Brussels. Hyde's concern soars. No wonder Hyde keeps scolding him! Yet Charles has called Hyde 'the naughty man'.😆 🎨unimpressed Hyde

I should have tagged @pitt-the-younger.bsky.social in this!

#otd 1651 Roundhead troops & a 'great priest-catcher' go snooping round Moseley Hall, causing #CharlesII to wake in alarm & dive into a priest-hole with John Huddleston—a man who conceals being a #Catholic priest. Tonight, Charles has a very interesting discussion with him. #religion #escape #royals

These Charleses A. Charles Stuart (pictured as an 'infant prince'✳️) B. Charles Giffard The name Giffard means 'chubby cheeks', so basically B describes A. ✳️'infant prince' is a term used for him in #Blackadder 😃 #babies #CharlesII #royalfamily #comedy #c17 #Stuarts #art #excusetopostcuteness

Special Guest Post by Claire Hobson, Author of Charles II: From the Cradle to the Throne tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/08/spec... @restorationhat.bsky.social #StuartSaturday #Booksky 💙📚

Something of interest to @chasquipenguin.bsky.social

He never shut up about it—why? IMO, when #CharlesII nearly fell out of a tree while hiding from #Parliament's men #otd 1651, his thinking was changing. The escape saw close shaves of arguably more interest, yet his #royaloak focus makes sense in view of before & after. www.amazon.com/Charles-II-C...

#OliverCromwell caused havoc by delaying battle at #Worcester till the #Dunbar anniv & then doing 2 more things of note on 3 Sep. #OTD posts? Where do ya start!? So sod it. The escape: 5 Sep 1651 #CharlesII rubbed his feet raw walking crosscountry in the dark & slept in a barn. #royal #history #war

#KINDLE NEWBIE👶 Probing bio Charles II: From the Cradle to the Crown👑 amazon.co.uk/Charles-II-C... 'engaging, well-researched, high-drama' 'incredibly detailed' 'emotional complexities' 'pleasing turns of phrase' 'an impressive range of evidence' 🧵below: age-by-age (0–30) taster #history #royalty

#otd 1629 Queen Henrietta Maria is newly pregnant after recent romancing with the king. Immediately before that though, she was beside fav servant Henry Jermyn. 29 May 1630 She gives birth to a huge baby heir apparent, but the paternity will be queried. www.amazon.com/dp/1399064517 #readallaboutit

So #CharlesII is ready for your pleasure in #America. At least I hope there'll be pleasure. No, #READINGforpleasure! Would I really engage in innuendo?! Ah. Well, my current research is partly to blame.😆😮 #history #war #childhood #royalty #revolution #sex #politics #Restoration #mentalhealth #books

US Launch of Charles II: From the Cradle to the Throne - see Special Guest Post by the author, Claire Hobson: tonyriches.blogspot.com/2025/08/spec... @restorationhat.bsky.social #Stuarts #History

Tomorrow 🇺🇸US publication of Charles II: From the Cradle to the Crown!👶👑 Grab preorder deals now! 1641 Oliver Cromwell was on the brink of quitting #Parliament & moving to #America. Some of my book would be very different if he had. How do you think the #history would differ? #CharlesII #revolution