Charles 1 execution questions?

Where was the execution of Charles I held?

What kind of people got to see the execution?

Who was on the stage at the execution?

Where was his family?

When did it happen?

Lilitu2012-01-22T01:07:29Z

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Where: Whitehall on a scaffold in front of the Banqueting House.
When: 30 January 1649.

Who: Commoners as well as nobility. Anyone who could make it.

Family: At the royal court in exile at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. (france)

Who was on stage: Charles, an executioner (masked, maybe William Hewlett), a priest, several revolutionary officials.

picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Contemporary_German_print_depicting_Charles_Is_beheading.jpg