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and who was eventually put on trial
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and executed by his own people in 1649.
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His son, Charles II, restored to the throne after
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ten years of republican government,
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Charles known as the Merry Monarch,
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the man who was energetic principally in his pleasures,
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famous for having innumerable mistresses
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and fourteen illegitimate children,
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never--though no legitimate children at all
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never happier than when swanning around St. James Park
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with one of his mistresses and his spaniels.
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The--you know the King Charles spaniel