ROYAL KILL LIST SERIES
WITH JOSEPH FIENNES AND JARED HARRIS
Sky History has announced March 12th as the start date for their three part docu historical mini series ROYAL KILL LIST which goes back to January 1649, when for the first and only time, a British
monarch, King Charles I, was publicly executed,having
been tried and convicted of treason by Parliament. This heralded ten
years of Britain as a republic before, in May 1660, the monarchy was
restored with the accession of King Charles II.
While publicly planning his own lavish coronation to take place the
following year, in April 1661, the new king had, behind the scenes,
ordered an exhaustive search for the death warrant ordering his father’s
execution. On finding it and the 59 signatories appended to it,
Charles ordered the biggest manhunt in royal history.
Told through dramatic reconstruction, with the 
actors serving as primary
storytellers – Sheila Atim for the Royalists, Jared Harris for the Regicides, and Joseph Fiennes
for King Charles II – the 
mini-series plays out as a Jacobean tragedy
detailing the king’s lifelong obsession to hunt down, try and kill all
those responsible for his father’s execution and his own desperate
flight into exile.
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| The series starts this March |
actors serving as primary
storytellers – Sheila Atim for the Royalists, Jared Harris for the Regicides, and Joseph Fiennes
for King Charles II – the 
mini-series plays out as a Jacobean tragedy
detailing the king’s lifelong obsession to hunt down, try and kill all
those responsible for his father’s execution and his own desperate
flight into exile.
And yet, Charles II forgave a lot of people that were involved in his father's execution
ReplyDeleteHe was obviously a woosy, I do not believe in forgiveness as a ruler, it shows lack of personal conscience and responsibility.
DeleteI much prefer a 3 part mini series over a drawn out movie. I do hope that this is more of the norm going foward.
ReplyDeleteWell, this is usual for a docu.
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