... King Charles 1st was executed/
The execution happened in the afternoon before the public on a scaffold set up outside the Banqueting House in London.
The executioner wore a mask and wig to hide his identity but beheaded Charles with one blow of the axe. In other words he knew what he was doing.
Last words were uttered to witnesses around him as the rows of soldiers would prevent the crowd from hearing - Charles proclaimed he "would go from a corruptible crown to an incorruptible crown"
'The executioner silently held up Charles' head to the spectators and then dropped the king's head into the crowd and the soldiers swarmed around it, dipping their handkerchiefs in his blood and cutting off locks of his hair. The body was then put in a coffin and covered with black velvet."
The execution happened in the afternoon before the public on a scaffold set up outside the Banqueting House in London.
The executioner wore a mask and wig to hide his identity but beheaded Charles with one blow of the axe. In other words he knew what he was doing.
Last words were uttered to witnesses around him as the rows of soldiers would prevent the crowd from hearing - Charles proclaimed he "would go from a corruptible crown to an incorruptible crown"
'The executioner silently held up Charles' head to the spectators and then dropped the king's head into the crowd and the soldiers swarmed around it, dipping their handkerchiefs in his blood and cutting off locks of his hair. The body was then put in a coffin and covered with black velvet."