Latest / Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood / Bittisode 014: King Charles' Disastrous Disguise
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- 0:00Speaker 1: You're listening to an airwave media podcast. Hi everybody, and
- 0:20Speaker 1: welcome to Hooded. What Now? The history podcast that's not
- 0:23Speaker 1: your history class? Betty soodes the little bits of history
- 0:28Speaker 1: that don't quite fit anywhere else with me your host,
- 0:31Speaker 1: Katie Charlewood, history harlot and reader of books. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
- 0:38Speaker 1: yes yes. I am feeling very regal this week as
- 0:43Speaker 1: I sit and a Powerpuff Girl's snuggie and a crown,
- 0:50Speaker 1: because everybody deserves a crown. I'm a firm believer of this,
- 0:54Speaker 1: Like everyone should have like a crown or tiara because
- 0:58Speaker 1: they're just fun. They're fun and they make you feel
- 1:02Speaker 1: nice and pretty and all the other good stuff with it.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Like I think I actually gave I did I didn't
- 1:09Speaker 1: think I did do it. I gave a crown to
- 1:12Speaker 1: one of my friends, my friend Shanna, my favorite smut peddler,
- 1:16Speaker 1: and I gave her a crown just because and she
- 1:22Speaker 1: was so happy, like she really she was very happy
- 1:24Speaker 1: to receive it. But like it just give the person
- 1:31Speaker 1: that you care about a crown and ortiara. Honestly, it's
- 1:38Speaker 1: just great. It's just a wonderful, wonderful thing and you
- 1:41Speaker 1: can wear it. Anywhere. You can wear it to the shops,
- 1:44Speaker 1: you can wear it in the garden. You can wear
- 1:47Speaker 1: eating cereal like there's nothing to stop you. You can
- 1:53Speaker 1: wear a crown while watching the Crown Like. You can
- 1:56Speaker 1: just do that, There's no rule against it. It's just
- 2:00Speaker 1: like a fun way to be says me, who's again?
- 2:04Speaker 1: And a pair of puff like snuggie. There was this
- 2:09Speaker 1: cute Powerpuff Girls like backpack and I love it and
- 2:12Speaker 1: I would use it, but I feel like my little
- 2:15Speaker 1: girl would steal it from me and I wouldn't have
- 2:18Speaker 1: the heart to like keep it. I'd have to let
- 2:21Speaker 1: her have it because I'm an adequate parent. I'm all right,
- 2:29Speaker 1: But yeah, I have exciting news. I bought an electric toothbrush.
- 2:38Speaker 1: Oh yes, oh yes. So I've had issues with you know,
- 2:45Speaker 1: gums and teeth and stuff like that. Part of it's ADHD,
- 2:49Speaker 1: part of it was a result from issues during my
- 2:53Speaker 1: pregnancies and stuff like that. So stuff hasn't been super
- 2:58Speaker 1: and I am trying to kick start myself back into
- 3:02Speaker 1: like a good routine. And I normally use like bambootooth bushes.
- 3:06Speaker 1: That's kind of my deal. I prefer them, actually, But
- 3:10Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, I really need to just
- 3:13Speaker 1: like really get myself into this because I'm trying to
- 3:17Speaker 1: take better care of myself because if I am rushing
- 3:20Speaker 1: my teeth, my kids are brushing their teeth, and it's
- 3:23Speaker 1: just a bad way for us all to take care
- 3:26Speaker 1: of each other. And if it works, it fucking works,
- 3:28Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. But I did see a water flosser.
- 3:34Speaker 1: It was on like a technology and list of things
- 3:36Speaker 1: you should own. A water flosser it like shoots a
- 3:39Speaker 1: jet of water into your mouth and flosses your teeth
- 3:42Speaker 1: for you. This is how you can tell I'm a
- 3:44Speaker 1: fully grown adult because I get excited over a flossing
- 3:49Speaker 1: machine because, like I always have trouble with floss itself.
- 3:54Speaker 1: I think it's a sensory issue, but I feel like
- 3:58Speaker 1: shooting water dorightly into my mouth seems fine to me. Okay,
- 4:04Speaker 1: but I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, quit your
- 4:05Speaker 1: jibber jabber in fact me, in fact you, I will
- 4:10Speaker 1: because the coronation is happening this weekend of King Charles
- 4:13Speaker 1: the Third. So I thought, well, that's happening. Why not
- 4:18Speaker 1: regale you with the tale of from one Charles to another,
- 4:22Speaker 1: you know, and go all the way back to King
- 4:26Speaker 1: Charles the First of England and Scotland, and I guess
- 4:31Speaker 1: Ireland or whatever in La and Wales. Geez, I Forgobert Wales.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Like that's really funny, like because Great Britain I think
- 4:45Speaker 1: existed at that point. And I King Charles the First
- 4:49Speaker 1: of England. He reigned from sixteen twenty five to sixteen
- 4:54Speaker 1: forty nine. And you're probably thinking, geez, that's not a
- 4:57Speaker 1: long rain at all. You're right, it's not. So Charles
- 5:02Speaker 1: Charlie boy, he did a couple of fun things. He
- 5:05Speaker 1: dissolved parliament, he you know, forced the country into a
- 5:11Speaker 1: civil war, you know, just just fun friendly things. Turned
- 5:16Speaker 1: a kirkyard into an open door prison. So hmm, not
- 5:27Speaker 1: not really the most efficient of leaders. See. The thing
- 5:31Speaker 1: about Charles is quite like Henry the Eighth, he wasn't
- 5:36Speaker 1: supposed to be king. He was the spare, you know,
- 5:41Speaker 1: so there was an heir and a spare and that
- 5:44Speaker 1: was Charles the First right, so he was never meant
- 5:47Speaker 1: to rule. And in fact, when James the First, James
- 5:52Speaker 1: the sixth of Scotland, James the First of England became
- 5:56Speaker 1: like the King of England when they moved down to England.
- 6:01Speaker 1: They left Charles behind, like they just fucking left him. Anyway,
- 6:06Speaker 1: That is not the point of today's bitysod. The point
- 6:11Speaker 1: of today's Buysoude is you know, more of a glowdown scenario.
- 6:18Speaker 2: Frankly, he's a bit of a dick, right, So he's
- 6:22Speaker 2: I mean, he's an arsehol to his wife for such
- 6:24Speaker 2: a long time, you know, he removes all of her
- 6:28Speaker 2: sort of her entourage and gets some sent away, and
- 6:31Speaker 2: he you know, gets really pussy when.
- 6:36Speaker 1: He takes advice from people the Parliament don't really agree
- 6:39Speaker 1: with because the Parliament's goilled like Puritans and Royalists and
- 6:44Speaker 1: everything else, and he wants everyone to act like Catholics, which,
- 6:51Speaker 1: you know, considering the turmoil that's been happening over the
- 6:54Speaker 1: last few you know, decades, not really the best of
- 7:00Speaker 1: ideas really. So he causes issues in Scotland, which is
- 7:08Speaker 1: there's a Covenant and these Presbyterians they want to just
- 7:14Speaker 1: pray and do whatever they want to do. They want
- 7:16Speaker 1: to have the right to their religion, you know. And
- 7:21Speaker 1: Charles he believes in the divine right of kings. So
- 7:24Speaker 1: he's like, no, I'm right, you have to follow me
- 7:29Speaker 1: like I am you know here because God put me
- 7:34Speaker 1: on the throne like divine right of kings. So he
- 7:37Speaker 1: gets mad at these covenanters, right, and he puts them
- 7:40Speaker 1: effectively in this open air present, like there's a fight.
- 7:45Speaker 1: They lose, Charles wins. Charles puts the survivors into present
- 7:51Speaker 1: and it's an open air present. So basically he puts
- 7:53Speaker 1: them in a field next to a graveyard right in Edinburgh,
- 7:59Speaker 1: and they of these bread rations which are so fucking
- 8:05Speaker 1: tiny that people are dying of you know, starvation and malnutrition,
- 8:13Speaker 1: and then the diseases start because they're out in the open,
- 8:17Speaker 1: there's no fucking protection from anything, and then they just
- 8:22Speaker 1: start dying off. So this is already not a good
- 8:25Speaker 1: look for Charles, right, So he's already pissed off the Scots.
- 8:30Speaker 1: The Scots are madam, and then he continues to piss
- 8:33Speaker 1: off the English, so he taxes, even though they're not
- 8:40Speaker 1: as taxed as much as other European countries, the taxes
- 8:43Speaker 1: are being raised in Britain and English people are just
- 8:46Speaker 1: not having it, but just not having it. They're mad
- 8:50Speaker 1: that he's married Catholic, a French Catholic, which is they're
- 8:54Speaker 1: probably just more mad that she's French, honestly, I swear
- 8:56Speaker 1: at this point and things just don't go well. So
- 9:05Speaker 1: when after he's dissolved Parliament a bunch of times, the
- 9:08Speaker 1: Parliament basically put in this rule they started voting, and
- 9:13Speaker 1: that they were gonna that they couldn't be dissolved by
- 9:17Speaker 1: the King on a whim basically, and yeah, yeah, So
- 9:24Speaker 1: one thing leads to another, and this results in a
- 9:28Speaker 1: civil war. So you got the Roundheads, which are led
- 9:32Speaker 1: by Oliver Cromwell, who is a cunt, and then you
- 9:40Speaker 1: had the Royalists or the Cavaliers, depending on how you
- 9:44Speaker 1: want to phrase him. I think cavaliers sounds more fun.
- 9:47Speaker 1: But Charles wasn't fun, and Oliver Cromwell would be as
- 9:54Speaker 1: miserable as sin. But sinning isn't allowed under Crommellian rules.
- 9:58Speaker 1: So that's its own a it's its own little kittle
- 10:03Speaker 1: of fish. So between the Roundheads and the Cavaliers, there's
- 10:07Speaker 1: this fucking power struggle. So there's this power struggle. It's
- 10:11Speaker 1: between the monarchy and the Parliament, and they're just trying
- 10:16Speaker 1: to be the alpha, right, They're trying to be the
- 10:19Speaker 1: big boss. They're trying to see who has like the
- 10:22Speaker 1: authority to rule the land, because you've got the Parliament,
- 10:26Speaker 1: who feel like they have earned this power, even though
- 10:29Speaker 1: most of it's fucking inherited. So and then you have
- 10:34Speaker 1: the king again, who believes that he has been placed
- 10:40Speaker 1: upon the throne by God himself, like he believes it
- 10:46Speaker 1: is his like spiritual fucking jury to be there. Right,
- 10:54Speaker 1: So you've got the Parliament and you get the King
- 10:57Speaker 1: and they're all just our souls and they're fighting. And
- 11:01Speaker 1: then you've got the taxes. The people are being taxed again,
- 11:04Speaker 1: not as harsh as other countries in Europe, but they're
- 11:07Speaker 1: being taxed. He's raised the taxes because he has to
- 11:10Speaker 1: fund wars and other such expenses, and so people are
- 11:16Speaker 1: getting pissed off because they think they're being unfairly taxed.
- 11:21Speaker 1: In Furnish, there was some weird taxes in there. And
- 11:26Speaker 1: then you've got this whole land dispute situation. So basically
- 11:32Speaker 1: land was being given out and provided to people, and
- 11:38Speaker 1: people weren't really happy with that because they felt that
- 11:40Speaker 1: some people were getting more than others and it wasn't
- 11:44Speaker 1: fair because of course, this is a situation where things
- 11:49Speaker 1: are fair. And then of course we have religion, the
- 11:54Speaker 1: daddy of them all, because for quite a lot of
- 12:01Speaker 1: British history, religion has come into it and it's been
- 12:06Speaker 1: causing chaos ever since. And because there's this massive conflict
- 12:11Speaker 1: right between you know, Protestants and Catholics, and it's it
- 12:18Speaker 1: just bollocks as everything up. And then you've got the
- 12:21Speaker 1: Church of England itself, right, which loads of people are
- 12:24Speaker 1: just unhappy with in general. But then you've got Charles
- 12:27Speaker 1: as the head of it, who, let's face it was
- 12:31Speaker 1: a bit more Catholic leaning than he should have been,
- 12:35Speaker 1: as you know, the head of the Church of England,
- 12:39Speaker 1: which has a you know, Protestant church. And so all
- 12:43Speaker 1: this bubbles up and adds up and leads to the
- 12:47Speaker 1: English Civil War. So the final part of the English
- 12:52Speaker 1: Civil War is the Siege of Oxford, and it was
- 12:54Speaker 1: technically like three sieges in one. And so there's basically
- 12:59Speaker 1: Royalists side and the parliamentarians are outside and they're sieged,
- 13:06Speaker 1: they're being sieged and and it becomes less of like
- 13:10Speaker 1: a battle scenario and more like a political one. See,
- 13:15Speaker 1: this is all because the king decided to set up
- 13:18Speaker 1: his own parliament, the King's Oxford Parliament, and it was
- 13:22Speaker 1: January of sixteen forty four. Am I saying this was
- 13:26Speaker 1: a good idea? No, absolutely fucking not, because quite a
- 13:30Speaker 1: lot of people in Oxford were roundheads. They did not
- 13:33Speaker 1: support the king. I mean it was like, financially a
- 13:36Speaker 1: really good idea to be there. Yes, So the King
- 13:40Speaker 1: he's in I think christ Church, and then the Queen
- 13:43Speaker 1: she's over in Merton. And you know, Oxford University is
- 13:48Speaker 1: it's happening, it's still going and it's not really been
- 13:52Speaker 1: affected that much by this, which is fucking hilarious. And
- 13:58Speaker 1: I think both of the Prince Charles and James they
- 14:02Speaker 1: get like these honorary degrees because of course they do,
- 14:05Speaker 1: because of course they fucking do. But anyway, by the
- 14:10Speaker 1: time May comes around, m yeah, things are not looking well.
- 14:17Speaker 1: They're dealing with these skirmishes and barrels that don't really
- 14:21Speaker 1: do anything or help them in any way, and it
- 14:24Speaker 1: gets to the point where they have to shit or
- 14:26Speaker 1: get off the pot. So they realize that if the
- 14:31Speaker 1: city is besieged, they don't have enough supplies to last
- 14:34Speaker 1: more than a fortnight. They've got two weeks if that,
- 14:39Speaker 1: and that's if they're lucky, right, So the King says,
- 14:44Speaker 1: fuck this for a game of soldiers, and he decides
- 14:47Speaker 1: it's time to get the hell out of Dodge. And
- 14:50Speaker 1: they come up with a clever rose. They pull a
- 14:54Speaker 1: sick Freed and roy obviously, and they create a diversion.
- 14:57Speaker 1: So the king has an army march into a part
- 14:59Speaker 1: of Oxford, kind of distract the roundheads, right, and so
- 15:03Speaker 1: King Charles, Prince Charles about two and a half thousand musketeers,
- 15:11Speaker 1: a bunch of like aristocracy and fucked on horses. Clearly
- 15:19Speaker 1: they you know, they escape, they leave, and it's June
- 15:24Speaker 1: at this point, so they were not exactly under cover
- 15:26Speaker 1: of darkness. They're like leaving at night, and there are wagons,
- 15:33Speaker 1: there are just stuff. He's bringing stuff with him, and
- 15:40Speaker 1: none of the roundheads notice, none of the parliamentary forces
- 15:45Speaker 1: clocked that's happening, clearly fucking not. So there are more
- 15:49Speaker 1: battles and more skirmishes and other shit that happens, and
- 15:55Speaker 1: basically they end up sieged again in Oxford. And on
- 16:01Speaker 1: the twenty seventh of April sixteen forty six, the Royalists
- 16:07Speaker 1: are losing, the Roundheads are closing in and Charles he
- 16:13Speaker 1: needs to leave because Oxford is literally a couple days
- 16:17Speaker 1: from being under roundhead control. Like Charles the first is fucked.
- 16:22Speaker 1: He's absolutely bollocked right, So he has no choice but
- 16:26Speaker 1: to try and escape. But he is the king. He
- 16:30Speaker 1: can't bring an entourage, he cannot you know, have anything
- 16:34Speaker 1: about him that makes him look like the king. So
- 16:39Speaker 1: again another careful ruse, another shneaksh shnake plan. Is he
- 16:45Speaker 1: decides or someone else decides at one point, well, a
- 16:49Speaker 1: decision is made, right, a decision is made for him
- 16:53Speaker 1: to dress like a servant because this is the third
- 16:57Speaker 1: and final siege of Oxford, and once that's taken over,
- 17:03Speaker 1: Charles has done for He's being captured, so he has
- 17:08Speaker 1: to escape. He needs to change his look, and so
- 17:12Speaker 1: they give him a haircut. So not only do they
- 17:15Speaker 1: cut his hair back, but they chop off his love lock.
- 17:18Speaker 1: It's like a little braid, a little plat plat however
- 17:23Speaker 1: you wanna call it. It's down like the left hand side,
- 17:26Speaker 1: and it's worn as a sort of sign of devotion
- 17:30Speaker 1: for someone. It makes me think of the Jedi. I
- 17:33Speaker 1: can't help it, it just does, because it's just a thing.
- 17:36Speaker 1: So they chop that off because it's very distinguished. You
- 17:40Speaker 1: know his portrait has it distinguished? No distinct? God, what
- 17:46Speaker 1: is it with me? And wants today? Yes, so it's
- 17:48Speaker 1: very distinct. The king is known to have a love lock.
- 17:51Speaker 1: There is a portrait of him with a love lock. Okay,
- 17:55Speaker 1: like there's we know it's there. So yeah, his beard
- 18:01Speaker 1: is trimmed, his hair is cut, they lose the braid,
- 18:06Speaker 1: and yeah, they dress him up in shabby clothes. We're
- 18:11Speaker 1: not shabby clothes, but like not royal attire, so they
- 18:16Speaker 1: dress him up. He cause plays as the lowly man
- 18:21Speaker 1: as a servant. Right. Oh, and he even has like
- 18:25Speaker 1: a name for his character. He calls himself Harry, Like
- 18:31Speaker 1: of course he does. He's supposed to leave, and he's
- 18:34Speaker 1: supposed to go on like a straight where he was
- 18:37Speaker 1: like you know, as the crow flies try and make
- 18:40Speaker 1: it easy. However, he's convinced to go like just a
- 18:44Speaker 1: more roundabout route, so he kind of goes like towards
- 18:48Speaker 1: London and then he goes up a little bit and
- 18:51Speaker 1: round a little bit and trying to head to sort
- 18:55Speaker 1: of Newark. Charles is on the run. He's looking for allies,
- 19:00Speaker 1: so he's heading towards Greater London and he's not really
- 19:04Speaker 1: hearing a peep, not really not really anything coming any
- 19:08Speaker 1: which way for him, So his options are kind of limited.
- 19:12Speaker 1: He's got, you know, find some sort of help in London,
- 19:17Speaker 1: some sort of ally that's one. Two go and meet
- 19:23Speaker 1: with the scot to you know, already pissed off at you,
- 19:27Speaker 1: or three fuck off to France, like that's your options.
- 19:33Speaker 1: So they are trying to head to a port. But
- 19:38Speaker 1: then he thinks, maybe I can ally with the Scots, right,
- 19:43Speaker 1: and there's these clandestine deals. There's back and forth, and
- 19:47Speaker 1: at this point it's kind of known that Charles is
- 19:49Speaker 1: dressed as this particular servant, so he ends up changing
- 19:53Speaker 1: into like religious garb. He's now dressed like a clergyman,
- 19:59Speaker 1: like that's where he's at now. So these deals are
- 20:03Speaker 1: going back and forth and they're trying to you know,
- 20:06Speaker 1: get some help there. And so he has welcomed into
- 20:09Speaker 1: a Scottish camp and they're surprised he's there, well, some
- 20:12Speaker 1: of them are surprised, a few people clearly or not.
- 20:16Speaker 1: And he becomes less of how I put this, less
- 20:20Speaker 1: of a guest and more of a prisoner because the
- 20:25Speaker 1: Scots contact you know, the Parliament and they're like hey, yeah,
- 20:31Speaker 1: so we have the king you want him, and he's
- 20:36Speaker 1: being kept in Kilham House and uh yeah, and after
- 20:41Speaker 1: nine months, nine months that's how long it takes to
- 20:45Speaker 1: grow a human closer to ten. But that's not the point.
- 20:50Speaker 1: After this time, there's finally an agreement and the Scots
- 20:58Speaker 1: exchange did you always swap? They sell them, right, They
- 21:02Speaker 1: sell King Charles to the Roundheads right for one hundred
- 21:08Speaker 1: thousand pounds and the promise of more money comment into
- 21:12Speaker 1: the hands, right, And so Charles gets delivered to the
- 21:19Speaker 1: Parliamentary Commissioners in January of sixteen forty seven. And so
- 21:24Speaker 1: this deal that King Charles made with the Scots, right,
- 21:28Speaker 1: because he had attempted to align himself with them, like
- 21:32Speaker 1: this is seen as an act of treason. But like
- 21:35Speaker 1: here's the thing. You know, the Roundheads would have found
- 21:38Speaker 1: one way or the other to you know, get rid
- 21:42Speaker 1: of King Charles, like they were planning. I mean, Cromwell
- 21:45Speaker 1: was definitely planning to love off his head, like that
- 21:48Speaker 1: was going to be their end game. But him deliberately
- 21:54Speaker 1: reaching out to Scotland is enough of like it seems treason.
- 22:04Speaker 1: So like it was definitely enough to get rid of them,
- 22:07Speaker 1: obviously because it did, but like, yes, it's not the
- 22:14Speaker 1: best of plans. It's not the best of plans, was it? Charles? Well?
- 22:19Speaker 1: But anyways, so ends the tale of the Escape of
- 22:23Speaker 1: King Charles the first. If you liked my retailing of
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