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Charles II

Charles II, between 1660 and 1665.
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Charles II,
born 1630.
See wikipedia.
His father was deposed and executed 1649.
Commonwealth 1649-1660.
Charles had to flee Britain.
He was in exile in 1651-1660 on the Continent (in France, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands).
Restoration 1660.
He reigned 1660-1685. (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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Named after Charles II

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

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Named after Catherine of Braganza

• Queens, New York
• Queen St, off the Quays, Dublin.