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29th January 1649

The axe is sharp and ready! Tomorrow morning King Charles I will die! The Parliamentarians have won. Through this long night, the King thinks back across the events that led to this end. His friend Sir John Oglander on the Isle of Wight has sent his trusted manservant, young Vivas, to keep Charles company in his last hours.

The King remembers his childhood in Scotland, his father’s accession to the English throne, his own coronation, his family. After his final year imprisoned at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, Charles I considers how many things have happened since he came to the throne – rebellion in Ireland, quarrels over religion and money, the Scots fighting over the border, the parliamentary disagreements, the political uprisings, and the long Civil War.

Outside the window in Whitehall, the scaffold waits…

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