The Murder of Charles I
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Death of Charles I
I was there. What would it be like to witness that? So obviously, I read most of the eyewitness accounts of the execution and worked out precisely where it was and where you'd have to stand. You'd get up on the wall and look, then you'd be really just 30 yards away, 40 yards away from it. And then it was a very, obviously, dramatic execution, full of all sorts of tiny, rather gruesome details. For instance, the block, he had to lie on his stomach and they'd put staples on the scaffold here and here and behind in case he had to be tied down. Of course, he went to his death very bravely. It
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