I just got done watching Supersizers Go...Regency on YouTube. I take it that Charles I was dispatched by Cromwell?
Oops, my bad ==> “Restoration”.
Love that show! I watch it on YouTube every now and then.
Cromwell wasn’t yet in a position where he was solely responsible, but he was certainly one of the moving forces behind Charley’s decapitation.
Which occurred, BTW, because Charley believed firmly that he, as king, was not obligated to keep any bargains he made if they became inconvenient. Since he believed equally strongly in his obligation to execute those who rebelled against God’s chosen ruler, those rebels were in self-defense forced to kill him first.
A slightly more pliable and dependable man could probably have kept his head by inaugurating the long English trend towards constitutional monarchy. His son Charley II, for instance.