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King Charles II, King Louis XIV: King Of France
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“Courage isn 't having the strength to go on, and it is going on when you don 't have strength.” 1 I’m going to talk to you about the different problems that they had to deal with like the public, or having to deal with political problems and war, and IL be showing you how they overcame these problems. Some factors that could pre determine weather or not the ruler will be successful, is his age, personality, previous things he has done, maturity level and possibly religion. I have chosen to talk about, Louis the XIV who was the king of France, King Charles II who was king or Britain and Suleiman the Magnificent, a sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
King Louis XIV: Know as Sun King,
Louis XIV was born in 1638 in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Louis XIII and Anne of Austria. At age 5, Louis XIV was crowned king after the death of his father, Louis the XIII, After the death of his father, Cardinal Mazarin, His god father, gave Louis a full education and as well as introducing Louis XIV into the world of Politics. At this time, his mother Anne, ruled ad regent, and at
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James 's Palace in 1630. His parents Charles I, who ruled the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, and Henrietta Maria, the sister of the French king Louis XIII. Charles was their second son and child, there first child lived less then a day. During the 1640s, when Charles was still a young boy, his father fought Parliamentary and Puritan forces in the English Civil War. After the death of King Charles I in 1649, England became a republic. On 6 February, the Covenanter Parliament of Scotland announced Charles II as King of Great Britain in the seceding of his father. Charles II was king from1649 to 1651, and then after he was exiled he came back and was later king of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1660 to 1685. The New Parliament decided to restore the monarchy and the House of Lords in 1660. They Invited Charles II to become

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