CHARLES I 19 NOVEMBER 1600 – 30 JANUARY 1649
Dec 29, 2020
2 minutes
WORDS: EMMA SLATTERY WILLIAMS
CHARLES’S RISE
A shy, sickly child, Charles lived in the shadow of his accomplished older brother, Henry Frederick. Henry was extremely popular, even eclipsing his father, James VI and I, on occasion, but at 18 he died, probably from typhoid fever, and Charles became heir apparent shortly before his twelfth birthday.
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