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It could almost be said that it started with Charles I being condemned to death for treason and murder by the parliament in 1649, but such an ending to the office of kingship is not really a beginning. After Cromwell's ten or eleven years of republican experiment and Charles II's restoration to the throne with many parliamentary constraints, a start of constitutional monarchy could be said to be in place. His un-kinglike behavior, though, and the advent of his son, James II, did little to place the king under the thumb of parliament. Not until Charles II's daughter Mary, and her husband William III of Orange, asked to remove James II and his Catholic leanings and love of the French, did England really experience a truly constitutional monarchy. William, being given full monarchial authority by his wife, worked with parliament to adhere to their limitations on his power.

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