The mysterious history of the Charles I stall plate
King Charles I was installed as a Knight of the Order of the Garter on 13 May 1611, at the age of ten. He is the only member of the Order ever to have a stall plate mounted in St ...
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A king five years ahead of schedule?
On my third day of work experience at the College of St George’s archives on a two-week attachment, I was asked to catalogue the digital photographs which record the various sections of the ‘Tables’ of the Knights of the Garter, ...
The funeral of Charles I
The English Civil War has sparked controversy and debate for over 350 years. One little known area is not so much the death of King Charles I, for that has been well recorded, but the circumstances of his burial. Whilst ...