King Charles 11

[raymcgechie]

What did King Charles 11 die of?

[Moog]

There hasn't been a Charles the 11th in the UK yet, Charles the 2nd died from his head falling off... he was beheaded in January 1649

[Peter Pedant]

Moog Moog, softly softly

 I'm sure raymondo means Charles II, and it is unkind of you to take it otherwise. and Hush!.....it was Charles I that lost his head in 1649.

Charles II died in 1685, prbably from mercury poisoning and being bled by his physicians. He fell ill in 1685 and was given god knows what. Charles II was ever a wag, with a sharp ear for a one-liner and repartee. He was the one who was told he had been described as a monarch who never said a foolish thing and never did a wise one. Charles thought for a moment and quipped: my words are my own and my actions are my ministers.

ANYWAY charles apologised for troubling his doctors by "taking an unconscionable time dying."

[Moog]

Of course it was - Act in haste repent at leisure eh?

[Sludge]

Charles II, the Merry Monarch, born 29 May 1630,  was the eldest son of King Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria. Civil war broke out in 1642 and he was forced to flee to France in 1646. His father was executed on 30th January 1649. After his father�s death Charles was invited to assume the throne of Scotland and was crowned on 1st January 1651. In Scotland he  found support to mount a challenge to Oliver Cromwell, but was defeated at the Battle of Worcester in 1651, and is said to have hidden in an oak tree, subsequently escaping to the continent in disguise. He remained abroad until after the death of Oliver Cromwell. He was declared King by Parliament on 8th May 1660, and crowned at Westminster Abbey on 23rd April, 1661. Charles� reign was marked by a great deal of change and upheaval through sweeping away all the visible remnants of Cromwell's Parliamentary period. Charles II dissolved Parliament itself on 24th January 1679. It was also a period of anti-Catholic sentiment and witch-hunts.Charles was renowned for his licentiousness and for keeping mistresses, the most famous of whom was the actress, Nell Gwyn. In 1662, he had married Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess, but their marriage was childless. He died of a stroke at Whitehall Palace on the 6th February 1685 and was succeeded by his younger brother as James II of England and James VII of Scotland.

"Charlie the second
Was one for the girls
He gave them all rubies
He gave them all pearls
He gave them all babies
In quite large amounts
Thus creating the peerage
Of Dukes, Earls and Counts"

[maxi29]

According to Dr Clifford Brewer's excellent book, "Death of Kings, a medical history of the Kings and Queens of England", Charles II died from kidney failure and possible syphilitic infection. Brewer cites as evidence, the King's uraemia and ulcerated leg as evidence. To support Peter Pedant's answer, Brewer also finds evidence of excessive bleeding and heat treatment, which certainly wouldn't have helped treatment and may have hastened death, but weren't the direct causes of his death.