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Thanks! Is there ever a timeline without foreign meddling? It's unlikely to be more pronounced than average, however. Are they ever otherwise? It's in their nature. They just can't help themselves. Niccolò Machiavelli having been dead for 115 years might put a spanner in the works, but if...

If you assume that the bolded parts are what happens, your post is accurate. Honestly, though, I don't expect things to turn out that way. Charles himself was bloody-minded as all hell, but a Regency Council would almost certainly be far more cautious. All the existing compromises (which were...

This brutal act of regicide -- for, without question, that is how it would (in the short term) be near-universally perceived by a shocked public -- would swing back the pendulum of opinion. By marching into Paliament to (attempt to) arrest several of its members, Charles had hurt his own cause...