King Charles I blue plaque

Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

King Charles I 1600 - 1649. Charles I, king of Great Britain and Ireland, was born in the Royal Palace of Dunfermline on 19 November 1600. The second son of James VI & I and Anne of Denmark, he was the last king to be born in Scotland. Traditional tales report evel portents attending his infancy. In

one of these a bloody cloak was said to have blown in through a window and rested on the child's cradle. Charles became heir to the throne in 1612 after the sudden death of his elder brother Henry an

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