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A quick note about our show.

We do a lot of research for our stories, but we also aren't your high school history class.

So some details and scenes are dramatized.

There will also be dirty scenes and some dirty language to match.

Please be advised.

All right, Brooke, let's take a trip down memory lane. All the way back to college.

University Day. Okay. We've got get low on the stereo. Oh, yeah. We've got low slung jeans on our hips.

You're performing on bar tops for your patrons. I'm studying like a really good student that I was.

Sure. But here's a thing. Today's Royal definitely spent a lot more time

partying than studying. I unfortunately can't relate. I just spent all my time at McKeldon Library.

Oh, they had a fret named after a library? That's so cool. No, but I really was at the library,

like once a semester.

Yeah. Same. But unlike me skipping my neurobiology homework, the subjects this guy skimped on include just about everything you'd need to run a country. And while it wasn't totally his fault that he came to the throne unprepared,

the choices that he made once he got there definitely did not help.

I'm talking mistresses, gambling, and lots of orgies.

Okay, when does the bad stuff start?

Because me living in my current life right now, those things seem fine.

Honestly, what the world needs is more orgies.

Yep.

But today we're talking about Charles II of England, also known as the Mary Monarch, thanks to his pleasure-seeking ways.

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