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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

thestuartkings: Charles II By Benedetto Gennari the younger

thestuartkings:

Charles II

By Benedetto Gennari the younger

tiny-librarian: Catherine of Braganza, the wife of Charles II. She is credited with introducing the habit of drinking tea to Britain, having brought the custom over from her native Portugal. 1667 Queen Catherine of Braganza by Jacob Huysmans http://blastfromtheroyalpast.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/catherine-ofbraganza-1638-1705-by-heidi.html

tiny-librarian:

Catherine of Braganza, the wife of Charles II. She is credited with introducing the habit of drinking tea to Britain, having brought the custom over from her native Portugal.

1667 Queen Catherine of Braganza by Jacob Huysmans

http://blastfromtheroyalpast.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/catherine-ofbraganza-1638-1705-by-heidi.html

thestuartkings: f**kyeahcharlesthesecond: thestuartkings: The Disgrace of Lord Clarendon, after his Last Interview with the King - Scene at Whitehall Palace, in 1667  By Edward Matthew Ward Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) was Lord High Chancellor to Charles II, who was one of England’s most colourful and profligate kings. Clarendon was dismissed both as a result of Charles’s general neglect of national affairs and because of a court conspiracy against him. The break between the two men took place on 30 August 1667. In this picture, Clarendon is seen leaving the King’s palace at Whitehall. The back of Charles can be seen in the distance. Members of the court look on, rejoicing in Clarendon’s fall. I think the Tate people are wrong to say that Charles neglected his country, but he was looking for an excuse to get rid of Clarendon, and after the failure of the most recent Anglo-Dutch War he found it. It’s one of the few things (along with the Bedchamber Incident) where I don’t defend Charles’s actions. The part about him neglecting national affairs annoyed me too, because I really don’t think it’s true. I thought about putting my own wording on this post but was conscious that I might be being biased towards Charles (as I usually am). But I really think this stuff that you always hear about him being lazy and neglectful are overstated. I do feel sorry for old Clarendon though, especially when I think about how Barbara gloated at his fall. Speaking of Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon, Mercurius Politicus celebrates his birthday.

thestuartkings:

f**kyeahcharlesthesecond:

thestuartkings:

The Disgrace of Lord Clarendon, after his Last Interview with the King - Scene at Whitehall Palace, in 1667 

By Edward Matthew Ward

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) was Lord High Chancellor to Charles II, who was one of England’s most colourful and profligate kings. Clarendon was dismissed both as a result of Charles’s general neglect of national affairs and because of a court conspiracy against him. The break between the two men took place on 30 August 1667. In this picture, Clarendon is seen leaving the King’s palace at Whitehall. The back of Charles can be seen in the distance. Members of the court look on, rejoicing in Clarendon’s fall.

I think the Tate people are wrong to say that Charles neglected his country, but he was looking for an excuse to get rid of Clarendon, and after the failure of the most recent Anglo-Dutch War he found it. It’s one of the few things (along with the Bedchamber Incident) where I don’t defend Charles’s actions.

The part about him neglecting national affairs annoyed me too, because I really don’t think it’s true. I thought about putting my own wording on this post but was conscious that I might be being biased towards Charles (as I usually am). But I really think this stuff that you always hear about him being lazy and neglectful are overstated.

I do feel sorry for old Clarendon though, especially when I think about how Barbara gloated at his fall.

Speaking of Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon, Mercurius Politicus celebrates his birthday.

thestuartkings: Charles II  in 1660 by Isaack Luttichuijs

thestuartkings:

Charles II  in 1660

by Isaack Luttichuijs

(via sebastianmorris)

thestuartkings: Cigarette Card - King Charles II R.J.Lea’s Cigarettes “MIniatures, Gold Border” (series of 50 issued in 1912) #29 King Charles II ~ by John Greenhill

thestuartkings:

Cigarette Card - King Charles II

R.J.Lea’s Cigarettes “MIniatures, Gold Border” (series of 50 issued in 1912)

#29 King Charles II ~ by John Greenhill
thestuartkings: “The Scots holding their young King’s nose to the grindstone” A cartoon from 1651 showing Charles II being lectured to by his Scots subjects

thestuartkings:

“The Scots holding their young King’s nose to the grindstone”

A cartoon from 1651 showing Charles II being lectured to by his Scots subjects

modernfoppery: thestuartkings: Charles II Restoration commemorative caudle cup: 1660 Tin-glazed earthenware commemorative caudle cup made in Southwark and decorated in blue, manganese, yellow and red on a white glaze with a half-length portrait of Charles II, crowned and wearing armour, flanked by the flags of St Andrew and St George, and inscribed: ‘C.R.’ and ‘DRINK UP YOUR DRINK AND LEVE NON IN FOR HEAR IS A HELTH TOO CHARLS OVER RYOUL KING’ and ‘WIB/1660’. Caudle was a hot spicy drink of ale or wine whisked into an emulsion with egg yolk. During the 17th century, the term caudle (alternatively - lear) was also used to mean a sauce made of sack, butter and eggs for pouring into pies. This makes me very happy (never mind that the spelling is terrible even by seventeenth-century standards).

modernfoppery:

thestuartkings:

Charles II Restoration commemorative caudle cup: 1660

Tin-glazed earthenware commemorative caudle cup made in Southwark and decorated in blue, manganese, yellow and red on a white glaze with a half-length portrait of Charles II, crowned and wearing armour, flanked by the flags of St Andrew and St George, and inscribed:

‘C.R.’ and ‘DRINK UP YOUR DRINK AND LEVE NON IN FOR HEAR IS A HELTH TOO CHARLS OVER RYOUL KING’ and ‘WIB/1660’.

Caudle was a hot spicy drink of ale or wine whisked into an emulsion with egg yolk. During the 17th century, the term caudle (alternatively - lear) was also used to mean a sauce made of sack, butter and eggs for pouring into pies.

This makes me very happy (never mind that the spelling is terrible even by seventeenth-century standards).

thestuartkings: Portrait of Charles, Prince of Wales (1630-85), later King Charles II by Sir Godfrey Kneller

thestuartkings:

Portrait of Charles, Prince of Wales (1630-85), later King Charles II

by Sir Godfrey Kneller