SEE JOSEPH FIENNES, JARED HARRIS IN NEW 17TH CENTURY MINI TV SERIES ROYAL KILL LIST ON KING CHARLES I

 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

The series starts this March

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.

JOSEPH FIENNES, JARED HARRIS SET FOR NEW 17TH CENTURY MINI TV SERIES ROYAL KILL LIST ON KING CHARLES I

 ROYAL KILL LIST SERIES 

WITH JOSEPH FIENNES, JARED HARRIS

Sky History has announced work on 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,

It will be a three part docu series

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.