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council CHARLES I. (1600-164.9), king of England, born at
Dunfermline on the 19th November 1600, was the second and
favourite son of James [. By the death of his brother Henry, he
became Prince of Wales in 1612, but the first public matter of
importance in which he was concerned was the Spanish marriage.
At first he was quite indifferent to the affair, and in 1022 he
was full of a dream that he would lead an army into the
Palatinate, and set his dear sister upon her throne. But, by the
beginning of the next year, Buckingham had filled him with the
romantic notion of setting off, in defiance of all policy, on a
private visit to Spain. llis conduct while at Madrid displays
the weakest side of his character. He took a violent fancy for
the Infanta, whom he seriously alarmed by leaping over the wall
of the garden in which she was walking, in order that he might
enjoy the private conversation which Spanish etiquette refused
to permit. With a mixture