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"I have been a most unconscionable time dying, but I beg you to excuse it."
~ Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1630-1685)
Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War.
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