Home: Quiz List: Charles II

This quiz is, like the name suggests, all about King Charles II.

I, Charles II, am displeased not to see a quiz about my person. I would like to set the record straight, once and for all, about my supposed mistresses. I will not tolerate any comment about how vain and silly this quiz is.

It is generally accepted that Charles II was a philanderer but what do you know about the women he "knew" and the children society couldn't accept?

The first monarch after the days of the Commonwealth, Charles II, returned to England to a warm welcome but his life had many ups and downs.

Charles II was born in 1630 with high hopes for Great Britain. He and his family had many misfortunes. This quiz takes some text from the 1979 biography by Antonia Fraser about his relations and court members and their fates.