Favorite Royal Images: The Restored King

Not actually a part of my "favorites" album previously, but it is Oak Apple Day and King Charles II deserves some recognition. According to the law:
"Parliament had ordered the 29 of May, the King's birthday, to be for ever kept as a day of thanksgiving for our redemption from tyranny and the King's return to his Government, he entering London that day".
Since we recently read about what a horror show was done away with by the return of the exiled Stuart king, I am sure everyone would join in celebrating this special holiday, grateful for the humane and dignified leadership of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen in stark contrast to the vicious, corrupt and juvenile creatures who occupy the realms of elected office. A Happy Oak Apple Day to all!
Death to the usurpers!
Death to all enemies of the Crown!
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Happy Royal Oak Day

A Happy Royal Oak Day or Oak Apple Day, a holiday marking the restoration of the monarchy in Great Britain in the person of His Majesty King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland. To all the people of the U.K. and the Commonwealth Realms, to all the English-speaking monarchists in the world, we share a hearty cheer of GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Happy Oak Apple Day!

Today marks the birthday of the late King Charles II of Great Britain and Ireland as well as the date of his triumphal entry into London when the monarchies of the 3 kingdoms were restored after the nightmarish Cromwellian interregnum. In 1660, to celebrate the occasion, May 29 was declared an official holiday, Oak Apple Day, by the English Parliament. Sadly it was dropped as an official holiday in the British Isles in 1859 though there is evidence that certain festivities continued to be held for many years thereafter. When monarchial restorations are such comparitively rare things, monarchists must take what opportunities they can to celebrate and certainly there were few such genuinely widespread and happy occasions as the restoration of the "Merry Monarch" Charles II after the Puritanical tyranny of Oliver Cromwell. The Mad Monarchist extends a happy Oak Apple Day to all blog readers, followers and subscribers!