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Charles II

Charles II (see here),
born 1630.
His father was deposed and executed 1649.
Commonwealth 1649-60.
Charles had to flee Britain.
He was in exile in 1651-60 on the Continent (in France, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands).
Restoration 1660.
He reigned 1660-85. (Royalists dated his reign as starting in 1649.)
He mar Catherine of Braganza.
He had an affair with Nell Gwyn and had issue:

1. Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St.Albans, born 1670.

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• After Catherine of Braganza:
  • Queens, New York
  • Queen St, off the Quays, Dublin.

• After Charles II:
  • The King's Hospital school, Dublin.
  • Charleston, South Carolina.
  • And hence the jazz dance, the Charleston.