Charles II[a] (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700)[b] was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg, which had ruled Spain since 1516, he died without children, leading to a European conflict over his successor. For reasons still debated, Charles ...
King Charles II. Charles the Bald (French: Charles le Chauve; 13 June 823 - 6 October 877), also known as Charles II, was a 9th-century king of West Francia (843-877), king of Italy (875-877) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875-877). After a serie
Charles Spencer’s latest book,To Catch aKing, tells us the story of the hunt for King Charles II in the six weeks after his resounding defeat at the Battle of Worcester in September 1651. And what a story it is. After his father was executed by the Parliamentarians in 1649, the young...
Charles II was the king of France (i.e., Francia Occidentalis, the West Frankish kingdom) from 843 to 877 and Western emperor from 875 to 877. (He is reckoned as Charles II both of the Holy Roman Empire and of France.) Son of the emperor Louis I the Piou
While King Charles III immediately became the king upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday after a record 70 years on the throne, it was the council's role to formally acknowledge the passing of one monarch and to then proclaim the new one on behalf...
Queen Elizabeth II 9月19 日,英国为已故女王伊丽莎白二世举行国葬(state funeral),英国王室成员、政府官员、神职人员、外国王室成员和政要等出席。 载有英国女王伊丽莎白二世灵柩的灵车 从白金汉宫附近经过 (新华社报道) 查尔斯在半个多世纪后登基,成为了...
He was physically and mentally disabled and died at just 39 years old. Here, the authors attempt to investigate the correlations between his signs and symptoms and the physical appearance on the painting.Charles II has been portraited by Juan Carreo de Miranda in a painting that may provide ...
First, in 1685, the Elector Palatine Charles II died. All that remained of his immediate family was Louis's sister-in-law, Elizabeth Charlotte. German law ostensibly barred her from succeeding to her brother's lands and electoral dignity, but it was unclear enough for arguments in favour of...
Charles III, the longest-serving heir apparent in British history, is the current King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms.
Charles has been king for less than a year and a half after inheriting the monarchy upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in September 2022. He was crowned several months later, on May 6, 2023. His health was generally understood to have been good. He had a noncancer...