Why was Charles II able to stay in the Netherlands for a time? and why he fight a war after with Holland?

Question

How long was he there ? under what lifestyle?

Why did they fight with each other afterwards?

What happened after Charles II died?

Answer 1

England and Holland were essentially allies before his birth their common rivals being France and Sp;ain. As part of that his sister had been married off to the "stadtholder" (appoinyed king) and so he was able to find refuge there for several reasons. He was very broke during that period. He might have died penniless and in exile except the Cromwell regime had made itself extremely unpopular (no singing, no dancing , no drinking, sort of an English ayotollah and for the same reason: religion) and then Cromwell died.

The "war" was later and had to do with commercial rivalry between these two international and naval mercantile countries. After a few naval battles, things were patched up, and afetr Charles died and his brother thrown out (because a Catholic and therefore suspected of sympathizing with the French and or Spanish and or the Papacy (which was seen a a tool of the French and Spanish), Charles niece Mary was made queen with her cousin, also Charles nephew, William, WHO WAS ALSO THE STADTHOLDER OF THE NETHERLANDS.

It was during this period that the English and Dutch swapped out colonies as part of the resolution of their tiff. This is when New Amsrterdam became New York.

The rivalry between the Dutch and the English was more like a family quarrel: both relatively small naval based merchant countries and protestant, against France and Spain and both trying to get larger portions of the overseas empires of the latter.

I dont think Charles personally had much affection for the Dutch, having been a beggar in their midst and his personality more fitted to the French, which his mother was.