Charles presided over all of this, with the Stuart court in the 1660s becoming a place of conspicuous wealth and consumption, with elaborate feasts, extensive drinking and widespread marital infidelity amongst the court's senior figures.

查统领这一切， 使得1660年代的斯图亚特王廷成显赫财富与奢靡消的象征，盛大的宴会、无度的饮酒以及朝中高官普遍的婚姻不忠， 此司空见惯。