"Off with his head!" – what did Charles II do with the men who killed his father?
The Regicides is the collective name for the men who signed Charles I’s death warrant in 1649. A mixture of MPs, lawyers and cronies, the 59 signatories did what no people had dared do before – they killed a king by prosecuting him in a court of law. After his Restoration, the vengeance of Charles II upon…