Ben Henderson
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Oh, well, my historical instincts have kicked in there.
You laughed.
There we go.
Oh, really?
So it's not the, you know, big fancy royal wedding we're used to.
No offence to Portsmouth, but not the most glamorous location in the world.
Yeah.
Well, just to paint a picture of Charles II then for listeners.
He's often portrayed in portraits with a big shaggy dark wig going down past his shoulders.
And he's known as a bit of a lad, isn't he?
He famously reopens the taverns after the Puritans had tried to clamp down fun after the Civil War.
But for the purposes of this marriage, his temperament's not great, is it?
Because him and Catherine don't raise any surviving children, do they?
And he has quite a lot of illegitimate kids with various mistresses, doesn't he?
So he's not the best behaved.
Yeah, it's a pretty remarkable influence for one woman, isn't it?
She's like an early modern Alice Loxton.
Great influencer.
Oh, have you been there?
Oh, very good.