Why was King Charles 1 a bad king?

That is a very debatable question: Cromwell & others took the view that Parliament had a say in government while Charles thought he had a divine right. Charles, while ostensibly a Protestant, also had Catholic sympathies. It would be a braver man than I to try to substantiate the rule of King Charles I, but there is just something about the Puritan ethic which I cannot stomach. While, with the horrific examples of Drogheda & Wexford apart, I admire Cromwells' Generalship, the 'Holier than thou' position these folk represent is just not to my taste ! I'm not saying the Monarchist position is necessarily correct I just don't get the option of Republicanism. Electing a Head of State just does not provide a better choice: Bush being an obvious example ! (Sorry to my US cousins, but it needs saying !) So I do not accept that Parliament had the right to commit Regicide: Yes, they had the power to limit the excesses of the Monarch, but to remove him from power in the way they did was, in my opinion, wrong.