I was now barrelling towards the English Civil War and I began to suffer the national disaster of 'internal issues'.

Then I got a famine event, which further dropped my stability. Then my heir, Prince Charles (the real life King Charles II, who restored the English monarchy and ruled until old age.), was killed by his horse at the age of fifteen. I managed to appease parliament and granted them more seats, so I could keep my stability up and avoid the English Civil War. What I'm having trouble with is domestic issues. They lost great power status about as quick as they gained it. That could not do - I declared war on them, invaded them, took my trade power back, and stole East America (the area that includes New Amsterdam/New York) off them, as England did in real life, as well as the chunk of Florida they'd decided to colonise. The Netherlands became a great power, immediately rivalled me, and stole my North Sea trade power. The colonisation side of things is going great. I invaded Scotland and unified the English and Scottish thrones, forming the Kingdom of Great Britain. I also started with a nice foothold in India, and obviously I still have a loyal Thirteen Colonies on my side. I currently have the provinces of Tierra Del Fuego, Kaweskar, Florida Blanca, and the Falklands in my hands over in Australia, I own the island of Parederme (Tasmania) and Yuin (New South Wales). I've started off by finding Australia and beginning the colonisation of Argentina before Spain can reach it. Furthermore, I started dangerously close to the time period in which the English Civil War took place. Despite King Charles I being the King of Scotland as well, they hated my guts, his wife's home country of France hates me too, and Spain refuses to co-operate with me. I decided to try my hand at a game playing as England just after the Thirty Years' War.

Europa universalis 4 english civil war