Do you know...

 that although there is believed to have been much gold and silver plate in Scotland during the Middle Ages for both secular and sacred use, only a scanty amount remains in evidence today, on view in museums and in private collections? Churches, palaces, and castles were stripped of their magnificently handcrafted treasures by looting mobs of the populace and the military, after Mary Queen of Scots' surrender at Carberry Hill, during the Protestant Reformation, and the Cromwellian era. Much of the gold and silver was melted down for coinage, including the 333-ounce gold font sent by Queen Elizabeth to Mary Queen of Scots for her son's christening. By the courageous acts of a number of Scottish patriots, the Scottish Crown, Scepter and Sword of State escaped the fate of the 600-year-old English Crown of Edward the Confessor which Cromwell himself condemned to the smelting furnace.

 that Charles II, who was well known for his appreciation of "the lasses," had once had his ears boxed by his own father, King Charles I, for flirting in church?

 that Charles II's last effort to save his father from execution was to send a blank charter to Parliament with his signature, that the members might write in any terms they wished for him to fulfill for his father's release? They sent him no response.

 that Charles II was informed of his father's death when his chaplain addressed him as "Your Majesty"?

 that Charles II was crowned on New Year's Day 1651 at Perth, having previously taken the Oath of the Covenant, in which he secretly did not believe?

 that Parliament, after Cromwell's death, recalled Charles II to the throne in 1660, where he ruled leisurely and extravagantly among both friends and enemies?

 that James II (of England) and VII (of Scotland), son of Charles II, ruled only three years before he was deposed by his own son-in-law, William of Orange; and after fleeing to France lived as a religious recluse for the last 12 years of his life?