After the ruling, the King is led …
Years: 1649 - 1649
January
After the ruling, the King is led from St. James's Palace, where he has been confined, to the Palace of Whitehall, where an execution scaffold has been erected in front of the Banqueting House.
Charles is beheaded on Tuesday, January 30, 1649.
His widow, Henrietta Marie, returns to her native France.
Thus begins the English Interregnum.
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- Three Kingdoms, Wars of the
- Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
- English Civil War, Second
- Interregnum, English (First)
