Time Travel Back To 17th Century London – With This Royalist Reenactment Along The Mall

That is the 52nd time that The King’s Military commemorate the execution of Charles I.

30 January marks a grim date within the annals of London historical past.

On at the present time in 1649, King Charles I used to be led from St James’s Palace to Banqueting Home on Whitehall, in entrance of which he was beheaded, thus drawing a gory line beneath the English Civil Battle.

A number of the proclamations of loyalty to Charles might sound unusual, seeing as we have now a King Charles once more.

For the previous half century, The King’s Military — a royalist department of the English Civil Battle Society — has commemorated what they name “His Majestie’s horrid homicide”, and on Sunday 28 January 2024, they return for his or her 52nd parade.

Wherever your personal monarchist loyalties lie, it is a likelihood to expertise a contact of time journey in central London.

The complete-costumed march — assume dozens of volunteers in royalist costumes, mounted troops and weapons — traces the brief closing journey of the King, as he was escorted to the scaffold.

A (considerably ugly) up to date German print of the execution of Charles I exterior Banqueting Home. Picture: public area.

The reenactment group kinds close to St James’s Palace, on the Mall in interval funeral costume at round 11.15am. Then, at 11.30am, they proceed to Horse Guard’s Parade for a commemorative service, wherein a wreath is laid at Banqueting Home. (It is a well-known, if disputed, piece of London trivia {that a} black mark at 2pm on the clock above Horse Guards signifies the the time that the axe fell on Charles’ neck.)

The procession is not simply troopers, both.

Subsequent, the military — now turned into battle costume — retrace the route again to St James’s Palace, beating drums, flying the King’s colors and proclaiming their loyalty to him. (This may increasingly all sound a little bit unusual in 2024, on condition that we as soon as once more have a King Charles.)

On 28 January, central London time travels again to 1649.

Wherever your personal monarchist loyalties lie, it is a likelihood to expertise a contact of time journey in central London — and it is free, too. If you happen to actually are a dyed within the wool republican, you possibly can at all times feast on a calve’s head [sic] as a substitute.

March in Commemoration of Charles I, begins on the Mall round 11am, Sunday 28 January 2024. It is free, simply flip up.