Royalist Leadership

• Charles was an inconsistent and unclear leader
• The Royalists divided between moderates(Hyde) and cavaliers(Rupert and HM)
• Cavaliers believed in inflicting defeat and non-negotiation – march on London 1642 and attack on Brentford
• Moderates plead for negotiation – siege of Gloucester and Oxford Parliament
• The King ‘flipflopped between them’ and provided inconsistent and confusing direction