SPECIAL PRESENTATION: 1001 GREATEST LOVE STORIES:: KING CHARLES II AND NELL GWYNN
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This is the story of a popular hedonistic King (Britain's Charles II) and Nell Gwynn, who came from the worst slums of London but became the only true lover of the king and a hero to the poor and downtrodden. From 'The Romance of Devotion Vol 'I by Lyndon Orr.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome back everyone to |
| 0:24.2 | the one thousand one greatest love stories this is your host John Haggadorn |
| 0:27.7 | we're gonna be covering some great essays or short stories from Linden oar's |
| 0:31.7 | famous affinities of history. |
| 0:33.9 | What we call our Greatest Love Stories series. |
| 0:36.8 | A few weeks ago we covered Anthony and Cleopatra. |
| 0:39.7 | This week we're covering King Charles II and Nell Gwen. Hope you enjoy it. And now King Charles the |
| 0:47.0 | second and Nail Gwen. One might classify the Kings of England in many ways. |
| 0:53.0 | John was undoubtedly the most unpopular. |
| 0:56.0 | The impetuous yet far seeing Henry II, |
| 0:59.0 | with the other two great warriors Edward I I and Edward the third, and William of Orange, did most |
| 1:05.8 | for the foundation and development of England's constitutional law. |
| 1:10.1 | Some monarchs such as Edward II and the womanish Henry the 6th have been contemptible. |
| 1:15.0 | Hard-working useful kings have been Henry the 7th, the Georges, William the 4th, and especially the last Edward. If we consider those monarchs who have in |
| 1:25.6 | some curious way touched the popular fancy without reference to their virtues we |
| 1:29.6 | must go back to Richard of the Lion Heart who saw saw but little of England, yet was the best essentially |
| 1:35.0 | English king, and to Henry V. Gallant soldier and conqueror of France. |
| 1:40.4 | Even Henry the 8th had a warm place in the affection of his countrymen, few of whom saw him near at hand, |
| 1:46.0 | but most of whom made him a sort of regal incarnation of John Bull, |
| 1:50.0 | wrestling and tilting and boxing, eating great joints of beef, and staying his thirst with |
| 1:55.4 | flagons of ale. A big healthy, masterful animal, in fact, who gratified the national love of |
| 2:01.5 | splendour and stood up manfully in his struggle with the Pope. |
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