How important was politics & the power struggle in disputes between Charles & his opponents in the years 1640 " 1642

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How important was politics & the power struggle in disputes between Charles & his opponents in the years 1640 – 1642

To fully understand the politics and the power struggle between Charles and his political opponents you have to look at a number of matters for example:

The look on Divine right. This was a major issue in disputes as the king (Charles) didn’t think parliament saw him as thee divine right king and took it to their own liberty to try and bypass the king’s authorisation. With a matter of issues (Stafford’s impeachment) the king was failing to realise the change in times and the beginning of a republic revolution and that the people wanted their say against matters and that the king was losing his power and influence over the people (as it will be shown in the civil war).

But thanks to his advisors advice and the influence his wife also had kept the king on the tracks of ‘he was the chosen one for it was his divine right to be the king of England’ so the advisors and his wife was partly to blame for disputes over divine right but at this time Charles was failing to understand that he didn’t have that much influence any more.

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(As previously stated) The reason for his wife interrupting the kings mind of power was she was French and at this time her brother the king of France was in a country of where what he says goes and no one was to disobey him so as she was his wife she possibly had one of the biggest influences over her husband the king.

Another was how his advisors mainly used the king as their own puppet what had a massive amount of power ‘Charles was the perfect puppet for a bad  advisor’ examples of this was how ...

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