Editing History of Jersey (section)

=== Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1646–1651) ===
{{see also|Channel Islands in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms}}
During the 1640s, England, Ireland and Scotland were embroiled in the [[War of the Three Kingdoms]]. The civil war also divided Jersey, and while the sympathy of islanders lay with Parliament, the de Carterets (particularly Sir [[George Carteret]] and Sir [[Philippe de Carteret II]]) held the island for the king. The Prince of Wales, the future [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] visited the island in 1646 and again in October 1649 following the [[High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I|trial]] and [[execution of Charles I|execution]] of his father, [[Charles I of England|Charles I]]. In the Royal Square in [[Saint Helier|St. Helier]] on 17 February 1649, Charles was publicly proclaimed king after his father's death (following the first public proclamation in Edinburgh on 5 February 1649).<ref>{{cite book |first=Maija |last=Jansso |title=Art and Diplomacy: Seventeenth-Century English Decorated Royal Letters to Russia and the Far East |date=10 September 2015 |publisher=BRILL, 2015 |isbn=9789004300453 |page=204}}</ref> Parliamentarian forces eventually captured the island in 1651 and Elizabeth Castle seven weeks later.