Regicide
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Regicide is the purposeful killing of a monarch and is often associated with a violent change in the regime, as in a revolution. A regicide can also be the person responsible for the killing. The word
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey Delaroche detail
A contemporary print depicting Charles I's beheading
Stuart Restoration
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The Stuart Restoration was the return in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy to the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, ending the Interregnum and the Commonwealth of England that had been establi
Regicide
…a bill setting up a High Court of Justice in order to try Charles I for high treason "in the name of the people of England". From a Royalist and post-restoration perspective, this bill did not become a lawful statute, as the House of Lords refused to pass it and it predictably failed to receive royal assent…
King Charles II in coronation robes by John Michael Wright
The departure of Charles II from Scheveningen (1660)
Thomas Harrison, the first person found guilty of regicide during the Restoration
Equestrian portrait of William III by Jan Wyck, commemorating the start of the Glorious Revolution in 1688