Charles II of England was queen of Scotland.
Charles II ( 29 May 1630 -- 6 February 1685 ) was king of England , Scotland and Ireland . He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651 , and king of England , Scotland and Ireland from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until his death . After 1660 , all legal documents were dated as if he had succeeded his father as king in 1649 . Louis agreed to aid him in the Third Anglo-Dutch War and pay him a pension , and Charles secretly promised to convert to Catholicism at an unspecified future date . The Exclusion Crisis ran from 1679 through 1681 in the reign of King Charles II of England , Scotland and Ireland .