If you read this column regularly, you’ll probably recall that the early culture of colonial Charles Town in many ways reflected the personality of its namesake, England’s King Charles II. Given ...
King Charles was born in November 1948 and posed for his first formal photograph a month later, in December 1948. The photo was taken by Cecil Beaton, and featured Charles in his crib with a ...
MERRY MONARCH: THE LIFE AND LIKENESS OF CHARLES II (274 pp.)—Hesketh Pearson—Harper ($5). On the night of Nov. 4, 1677, a few hours after he had, for certain umbrous reasons of state, brought about a ...