[Shadow44]

Fun fact about King Charles; he was 5’6” when he began his reign, and died at only 4’8”!

[meadsjn]

he was 5’6” when he began his reign, and died at only 4’8”!

Removing that top ten inches "t'was only a flesh wound".

[Moltke]

If they had hanged him instead he might’ve made it to 5’10’’!

[Maine Mariner]

All that power must have gone to his head.

[Sherman Logan]

Interesting fact about the English Civil War. Most of the younger and more progressive nobles supported the King. Those who supported Parliament were mostly the older and more conservative ones.

This was because royal absolutism was almost universally viewed at the time as the wave of the future.

100 or 200 years before most European nations had something similar to the English system of King and Parliament. Some sort of representative body.

They’d been pretty much all destroyed or made powerless except in England, and most expected it to occur there.

So the Parliamentarians were not thought of, as they are today, as harbingers of the future, but as old fogies stuck in the past.