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Why Was Charles I Executed?

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The execution of Charles I in 1649, resulting in the proclamation of a Commonwealth, was an extraordinary political event. It followed a bitter Civil War between parliament and the king, and their total failure to negotiate a subsequent peace settlement. Why the king was defeated and executed is still a central question in English history. The old solutions - whether those of the Victorian narrative historian S. R. Gardiner or Lawrence Stone's diagnosis of a fatal long-term rift in English ...