The weasel has landed

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According to The New York Times, King Charles III of the United Kingdom will meet with leaders of major artificial intelligence companies in Scotland. These sorts of meetings have been a tradition since, well . . . Rudolph Hess

Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a King who was above the law - in the end the man they briefed was the radical barrister, John Cooke. Cooke was a plebeian, son of a poor Leicester shire farmer. His puritan conscience, political vision and love of civil liberty gave him the courage to bring the King's trial to its dramatic conclusion:

. Charles himself soon came to despise the "villainy" and "hypocrisy" of the Covenanters.^[10] Charles was provided with a Scottish court, and the record of his food and household expenses at Falkland Palace and Perth survives.^[11]

Cast gold coronation medal of Charles II, dated 1651

Charles's alliance with the Scots led to the Anglo-Scottish War of 1650 to 1652. On 3 September 1650, the Covenanters were defeated at Dunbar by a much smaller force commanded by Oliver Cromwell. 

Of Charles II, Rochester supposedly said:

We have a pretty, witty king,
Whose word no man relies on,
He never said a foolish thing,
And never did a wise one

 In 1665, the Great Plague of London began, peaking in September with up to 7,000 deaths per week.^[38] Charles, his family, and the court fled London 

After a long spell of hot and dry weather through mid-1666, the Great Fire of London started on 2 September 1666 in Pudding Lane. Fanned by strong winds and fed by wood and fuel stockpiled for winter, the fire destroyed about 13,200 houses and 87 churches, including St Paul's Cathedral.