‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,’ said Samuel Johnson in 1777.

Although Whitehall is now known for being the home of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, 10 Downing Street, and countless government buildings, there is a royal execution site hidden in plain sight.  King ...

plus money-saving tips with our free twice-daily newsletter Sign up Banqueting House and the beautifully ornate Tudor Holbein Gate survived, although an unsentimental London demolished the gate in ...

Just after 2pm on Tuesday, January 30, 1649, King Charles I was beheaded on a temporary scaffold built in front of the Banqueting House in Whitehall, London. Stood next to the king’s lifeless body was ...

On this day in 1649, King Charles I was led from St James's Palace to Banqueting House on Whitehall, in front of which he was beheaded, thus drawing a gory line under the English Civil War.

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