generally considered clean,
Charles II and his brother
James enjoyed many an
evening dip ‘to bathe
themselves’ around Battersea,
Putney and Nine Elms. King
Charles was certainly a river
lover, with ‘a propensity for
swimming in the Thames at
5.00am at all seasons,’ writes
his biographer Antonia
Fraser, plunging into its
freezing waters while ‘his
courtiers shivered on the
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