This is King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland, as depicted in a famous triple portrait by the Flemish artist, Anthony van Dyck, in the 1630s. The king commissioned the painting as a ...

In the Saint Louis Art Museum’s Gallery 238, two life-size paintings hang side-by-side. On the left is an official portrait of Charles I, pictured striking a powerful pose and surrounded by an array ...

The vest said to have been worn by Charles I at his execution on January 30, 1649 © Museum of London On January 30, 1649, England’s Charles I arose early and ...

The new king of England will reign as King Charles III – a moniker he once reportedly considered rejecting to avoid links to the bloody and turbulent history of his two royal namesakes. His majesty ...

King Charles III meets with Greg Doran of the Royal Shakespeare Company and author Jonathan Bate to examine the First Folio of King Charles I. Brian Cox and Nicole Ansari Examine a First Folio Brian ...

Before the former Prince Charles took the British throne, some royal experts wondered if he would use one of his other names, George, when he became king. However, he styled himself as King Charles ...

I remember King Charles III—or Prince Charles, as he was then—arriving on his first day of school. He stepped out of a car and he was surrounded by his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, the ...

If, as the saying goes, “the past is prologue,” consider this: On Jan. 30, 1649 (is that past enough?), Charles I, King of England, laid his head down on the executioner’s block and was put to death.

The first sparked a civil war and was beheaded; the second was known as the “Merry Monarch,” a party animal The death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest ruling monarch, has heralded the ...

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