Summary: <p>On the 30 January 1649, a large crowd gathers beneath a hastily erected scaffold at the Palace of Whitehall, at the stroke of 2pm a nameless masked man delivered a single blow to sever the head of Charles II. 700 hundred years after Alfred the Great sought to establish the Kingdom of England, the English monarchy was no more. A commoner and puritan named Oliver Cromwell was now the country’s de facto dictator. But as Cromwell’s parliamentarians celebrated an end to the violent civil war, the King’s 19-year-old son was determined to avenge his slaying and to restore the monarchy. A decade later, the young pretender would assume his father’s throne.</p> <p>In this episode, I examine the life of King Charles II, from his earliest days, through his exile, his triumphant return, and the remainder of his troubled reign.</p> <p>This is an original production brought to you by Daniel Mainwaring's Fascinating People, Fascinating Places Podcast. For more information visit the website <a href="https://danielmainwaring.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.DanielMainwaring.com</a></p> <p>Additional material provided by Dorsey Jackson - <a href="https://youtu.be/DxFyjYpKUVE" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/DxFyjYpKUVE</a><br> of Dorsey Jackson Global<br> at Compound City</p> <p>Covert art is a bust of Emperor Caligula, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek made by Louis Le Grand in March 2007 Made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en).</p> <p>Audio effects and music <a href="https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/deep-breath-8261/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pixabay</a></p> <p><br></p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/daniel-mainwaring5/message
