[crz]

The whole of the Stuarts were imbeciles.

James was a queer, Charles was an idiot, his son was also an idiot. James had to get out of dodge because he was an idiot.

I guess the only two might have been Mary-William and Mary, and last Ann-who was also weird.

I can only count..up to the Hanoverian's, a few monarchs who were worth anything. Edward the 3rd comes to mind.

[robowombat]

I suppose Queen Anne might have been a bit odd, she had 13 still births and miscarraiges and one son who dies at 13.

[Paal Gulli]

"...James was a queer, Charles was an idiot, his son was also an idiot. James had to get out of dodge because he was an idiot...."

And The Bonnie Price might have been the dullest Crayola in the box.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The Stuarts were too foreign to rule England. They were still stuck in the pre-Magna Carta mindset. The idea of the monarch or nobility being under any sort of restraint was totally alien to them.

They were used to doing what they wanted, when they wanted and how they wanted.

The reason that England under Elizabeth flourished was that she had the support of the commoners, the Yeoman and the merchant class.