He wanted to develop collaborations between soul singers and rock ' n ' roll, hoping to make an album with Ray Charles and gospel legend Mahalia Jackson.

The new command came with a competent Flag Lieutenant, Charles Dix, but Beatty was not happy with him, and anyway the former commander of the squadron wanted Dix to accompany him to his new command.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

The College of Cardinals was equally split between French and Italian Cardinals who wanted a Pope from their country due to the ongoing political situation with Charles of Anjou, younger brother of King Louis IX of France, who had usurped the throne of Sicily by arms and perpetually intervened in the political affairs of the entire Italian peninsula.

While Villars wanted to immediately move to secure the Alpine passes against Austrian reinforcements by moving against Mantua, Charles Emmanuel, mistrustful of his French allies and their dealings with Spain, sought to secure Milan.

Although the Catholic Monarchs had already altered some rooms of the Alhambra after the conquest of the city in 1492, Charles V wanted to construct a permanent residence befitting an emperor.

The latter Anne, in turn, had been betrothed in 1483, and was actually married by proxy to Maximilian himself in 1491, but Charles and his sister wanted her inheritance for France.

Rogers had control of Nassau, but Charles Vane was loose and threatening to drive Rogers out, and Rogers received word that the King of Spain wanted to drive the English completely out of the Bahamas.

Senators Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson of Massachusetts wanted the Republican Party to advocate constitutional amendments to prohibit slavery and to guarantee racial equality before the law.

Erhard believed the major world problems were soluble through free trade and the economic unity of Europe ( as a prerequisite for political unification ); he alienated French president Charles de Gaulle, who wanted the opposite.

This new parliament did not meet for thirteen months because Charles wanted to give the passions a chance to die down.

Mary wanted to name him Charles after her brother, but her mother-in-law insisted on giving him the name William or Willem to bolster his prospects of becoming stadtholder.

Charles wanted to use the possibility of marriage to gain leverage in negotiations relating to the war, but William insisted that the two issues be decided separately.

Charles wanted not just to defeat the army but to depose August ( see above ), whom he regarded as especially treasonous, and have him replaced with someone who would be a Swedish ally, and this goal proved hard to achieve.

The ultra-royalists wanted a return to absolute monarchy, the re-establishment of privileges, and a king: < span lang =" fr "> Charles X </ span >.

Louis Philippe wanted Charles to catch a venereal disease, and either die as a result or become sterile, thereby increasing his own chances of one day gaining the throne of France.

Charles gave his Prime Minister, Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, lists of laws that he wanted ratified every time he opened parliament.

Charles Emmanuel was one of the most wanted candidates for the crown of a restored Serbian Kingdom, hypothetically presumed after a Christian crusade against the Ottoman Empire during the plannings of the Great Conspiracy of the late 16th and early 17th centuries under the auspices of Serb Patriarch John II Cantul, Herzegovinian Duke Grdan and other chiefs of the Serb clans.

He went on to play the organist in When We Are Married and by his third role, the chauffeur Charles in Miranda, Barker realised he wanted to be a comic actor.

Buckingham spoke at length, claiming " they did not wish to continue a bloody war, but wanted only a settled government under Royal King Charles.

According to Charles Baldwin, an environmental-health engineer who contributed to its development: " We wanted something that was memorable but meaningless, so we could educate people as to what it means.

After protracted haggling the two leaders met near Pontoise on 19 August 1359 ; on the second day Charles of Navarre publicly renounced all his demands for territory and money, saying he wanted nothing more than what he had at the beginning of hostilities and ' wanted nothing more than to do his duty to his country '.

As on previous occasions, Charles did not really want an English army on his lands ; he wanted the threat of one to put pressure on Charles V. But Charles V refused his demands outright.

Rupert, for his part, was unhappy that Charles Louis could not endow him with a suitable estate, and the two parted on bad terms in 1657, Rupert refusing to ever return to the Palatinate again and taking up employment under Ferdinand III in Hungary.

This was not entirely out of benevolence ; according to Prest, Blackstone was likely aware that an Oxford alumnus, Charles Viner, was planning to endow a professorship of English law.

Francis I of France recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.

Rather than face this ordeal, Alexei fled to Vienna and placed himself under the protection of his brother-in-law, the emperor Charles VI, who sent him for safety first to the Tirolean fortress of Ehrenberg ( near Reutte ), and finally to the castle of Sant ' Elmo at Naples.

# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.

* Charles V of Naples ( 1661 – 1700 ), better known as Charles II of Spain

* 1387 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.

* 1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.

Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.

" Boccaccio reading from the Decameron to Queen Johanna of Naples ", by Egide Charles Gustave Wappers | Gustaf Wappers ( 1803-1874 ), Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Conradin's campaign to retake control ended with his defeat in 1268 at the Battle of Tagliacozzo after which he was handed over to Charles, who had him publicly executed at Naples.

* 1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, captures Charles of Salermo.

( Sicily was at that time ruled by his younger brother, Charles of Anjou, and the French army returned to France through the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily.

While the court was prepared to accept Mary's fiancé as king, the majority of the nobility was opposed to the idea of a female monarch and regarded her closest agnate, King Charles III of Naples, as the legitimate heir.

In the meantime, events in Naples took an unexpected turn when the Duke of Anjou died in 1384, leaving King Charles III able to lay claim to Hungary.

To elevate his son to Mary's rank, Emperor Charles V ceded the crown of Naples, as well as his claim to the Kingdom of Jerusalem, to Philip.

In 1279, when Charles II, King of Naples, erected a Dominican convent at La Sainte-Baume, the shrine was found intact, with an explanatory inscription stating why the relics had been hidden.

His second son, Raimondello Orsini del Balzo, supported Charles III ' coup d ' état in Naples against Queen Joan I.

Pope Celestine V abdicated on 13 December 1294 at Naples, where he had established the papal court under the patronage of King Charles II of Sicily.

The conflict continued until the Peace of Caltabellotta in 1302, which saw Pedro's son Frederick III recognized as king of the Sicily, while Charles II was recognized as the King of Naples.

The youthful Ladislaus was the rightful heir of King Charles III of Naples, assassinated in 1386, and Margaret of Durazzo, scion of a line that had traditionally supported the popes in their struggles in Rome with the anti-papal party in the city itself.

Three national synods were held during his pontificate at Naples under Alfonso Cardinal Caraffa ( whose family had, after inquiry, been reinstated by Pius V ), at Milan under Saint Charles Borromeo, and at Machim.

Then, fortified with papal money and supplies, Charles marched into Naples.

Clement IV is said to have disapproved of the cruelties committed by his protégé, but there seems no foundation for the statement by Gregorovius that Clement IV became an accomplice by refusing to intercede for the unfortunate Conradin whom Charles had him beheaded in the marketplace of Naples.

In 1734, Charles I conquered the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily, and was crowned as the King of Naples and Sicily on 3 July 1735, leaving the Duchy of Parma to his brother Philip ( Filippo I di Borbone-Parma ).