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    Shirt worn by Charles I for his execution to go on display in London

    Exhibition will feature artefacts from public executions from 1196 to 1868 On 30 January 1649, King Charles I of England took to the scaffold outside the Banqueting House in London’s Whitehall. He had requested two shirts to prevent himself from shivering from the cold, a reflex he thought could be mistaken for fear. He knelt […] More