Hello everyone and welcome to the history of England episode 351, Bread in Palomance.

The 80s general theme in political life is in not, and after a while everyone just gets

a bit bored with a government.

However popular or successful you might have been, there's just come to time for a change

and generally speaking even to the likes of Elizabeth.

When the old monarch or political party shuffles off the political coil into the political

field of elizium, wherever they might be, to endlessly debate or brief secretly against

each other for eternity, everyone is filled with hope for the new regime.

There is, in brief, a honeymoon period.

Even if it might be as brief as that which greets each new manager of Derby County before

the stream of disasters inevitably follow.

And then, you know, well, it ends.

Well, Charles, as we mentioned last week, swept into his new role on the crest of a wave

of optimism, not just because he's always nice to have a change, although it's part of

it, but because Charles and his power that you could buck him had rather suddenly switched

from Spanish match to Spanish match, and the old king who appeared to have been standing

in their way was now out of the way.

Edward Cook, who would prove a difficult custom of Charles in some ways, had spoken in the

last parliament about Charles as a sort of, Henry V. Blackbrince Combo, and look, you don't

get higher praise in English history than that, let me tell you.

This young prince would now lead them into a repeat of the glories of their Elizabethan

golden age, without all those famines and nasty bits of the 1590s, but you'd all been

...