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Killing a king: the execution of Charles I

29 January 2019 By Leanda de Lisle

The Execution of Charles I

This year sees the 370th anniversary of the execution of Charles I on 30 January, 1649, an event which was, by law, commemorated annually for almost 200 years. Charles’s biographer, Leanda de Lisle, writes about the day they killed a king. Charles I awoke before dawn in St James’s Palace on the day of his […]

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