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On the Irish revolt that was partly due to the fact that Charles was head of a Protestant government and while possibly not as brutal as on the continent - in the latter stages of the TYW - they had rebelled against English/Protestant rule. There was a royalist army stranded in the Dublin...

The US probably succeeded because France and Spain helped them but it started without external help. The French revolution was internal and while liberal groups in the UK were favourable to it - until it got as brutal and bloody as its predecessor - but the government and establishment being...

I wouldn't rely on that. A fair number of kings have been killed by internal revolts. Agreed that most have been organised by other members of the establishment but a number have relied on broad popular support - as have monarchies improving their power against feudal nobles for instance...

That's definitely a possibility but I was replying to a suggestion that the Regency council would continue seeking royal absolutism. In that case the war would go on as too many people have too much to lose. Plus there would still be the need to suppress revolt in Scotland and Ireland. The...

That's what his supporters will claim but that will be contradicted by parliamentarians, As the OP makes clear its uncertain what happened and given Charles stupidity and arrogance its quite possible that he and his supporters were the ones who initially breached the parley. Given that most...