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Podcast: British History: Royals, Rebels, and Romantics
Episode: Dad Liked Me Best! Stuart Brothers on the Throne (ep 58)
Description: The four generations of Stuart reign—James I, his son Charles I, his sons Charles II and James II, and James’s daughters Mary and Anne—represented a manifestation of chaos and conflict. Particularly in the reigns of the male Stuarts, the battles between Catholic and Protestant, King and Parliament, and England and the continent rocked the country, weakened the peace and prosperity, and threatened future of the monarchy (in fact, eliminated the monarchy for a period of time!).Two sets of siblings sat on the throne during the Stuart regime: brothers Charles II and James II and si...