But he was legally right. Parliament had no authority to try him under the law.

@@thesmithersy The Magna Carta was ground braking but has some deep flaws in it Chief among them No punitive measures for king that breaks its rules

@@ztcgamer9652 Magna Carta at the time had no method for putting the King on trial

@@thesmithersy And that right there was probably the biggest flaw in the Magna Carta

@@thesmithersy Incorrect. We had a war about it. Parliament, not the King, is Sovereign.

But a soap opera is not so interesting! It is found on historic events nevertheless

the two go hand in hand... Subject-Citizen... or else mealy a King in one's own right to the absolute or in chained to those who are.

no one cares

Freemasonry and Englightenment Ideals are not inevitable. Several societies and monarchies have resisted such tendencies. The whole of Europe was not so lucky.

@@nobey1kanobey Freemasons pushing democracy, evil bastards knew exactly what they were doing, though not saying a crown or royal family is a better alternative. So far a constitutional republic seems the way to go, but once again cringe ole democracy coming to ruin it all again (look what happened to Rome)

Obviously, 'divine right' was ultimately a lie employed by narcissistic megalomaniacs to faux justify themselves, whether or not their governing was competent and/or abusive. That an inbred fool like Charles I may have genuinely believed the lie is tragic. But the ability of a human to be rational is essentially the one trait which permits our species to dominate the others. So, a human ruler who cannot be rational is worse than useless.

Charles deserved what he got in this case. He broke his coronation oath and there was very much precedent for a king being dealt with fatally for doing that. Edward II. Richard II. Not entirely the same as with Charles but precedential in any case. James II also got handled roughly for breaking his coronation oath as well. The coronation oath was and is an extremely serious thing. Hence the unpleasant consequences for kings violating it. The one exception to this was Henry VIII but he was a canny-enough operator to bring Commons, Lords (at least Lords Temporal) and people with him when he broke with Rome and violated his coronation oath. Thus he survived the experience. James II ran away fast enough to survive the experience as well.

@@nobey1kanobey England and the rest of the Anglo world... rejected the Enlightenment until the late 19th early 20th century... and its been down hill ever since. Absolutist Ideals are nether inevitable ether nor the alternative... England was the only major power to properly resisted such tendencies... the rest of Europe was not so lucky. England successfully put down the United Irishmen and their co-conspirators in England & Scotland, the United Englishmen and the United Scotsmen, the rest of Europe just doubled down on Absolutist tendencies. Why do you think France ended up way it she did, yet England was defeated in the American revolutionary war... and France, the major victor in that war,... devolved in to bloody revolution, civil war and military despotism?

1618 Prague - before UK...

@@King_of_Railways Hey well done peeps!!

first usa then france

@@King_of_Railways well yes since the UK wasn't formed until 1707.

@@davidpnewton you're wrong! United Kingdom was formed in 1801 before it was simply Great Britain...

Oh dear, Yawn

Based on what?

Napoleon Dynamite ruined it for ya, huh?

Yep and some of what happening in the film was not true. Cromwell never had speech after the execution because he was not there at the time according to history books. Also the place where the trail took place was too small because we Britons like me knew where the real trail took place. it was held in the great Westminster hall next to current house of Parliament and it was big unlike in the film.