Opening The Coffin Of King Charles I - The Executed King

One of the most crazy executions in English history saw the King Charles I on the 30th January 1649 be taken to the executioner’s scaffold which had been created on Whitehall. He was the man who had plunged his country into the deadliest civil war ever fought on English soil, and he had been condemned by Parliament and figures such as Oliver Cromwell. But the King was met by an anonymous executioner and an axeman who in one swing of the axe took the King’s head from his shoulders. However as the King’s remains were gathered up there was a question as to what to do with the body of Charles I, as Parliament were worried that it would become a royalist relic and be venerated by those who wanted to oppose the new political structure in England. But Charles I was buried in secret alongside one of the most controversial and notorious Kings of England, Henry VIII but 200 years after his execution his coffin was broken into.