Talk:Charles II

Derogatory statements like "Whatever troubles or embarrassments affected him, he left the anxiety and care to his ministers and council and just enjoyed himself with his experiments, mistresses, dogs, and perpetual fun" need substantiation either by quotes from historical documents or reference to secondary literature.

"Charles got the nickname ‘Merry Monarch’ by Clarendon’ son, Laurence, First Lord of the Treasury": this is plagiarised from the website britishheritage.com and is confusing the Earls of Rochester (an indication that the author does not known their Restoration history properly and the site is a rather poor source). The Second Earl, John Wilmot, coined the phrase and "quipped, 'He never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one'" (https://britishheritage.com/history/charles-ii-restoration). Clarendon's son, Laurence Hyde, became Earl of Rochester later and he is not known as quipper.