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On the morning of 30 January 1649, King Charles I made his way from St James’s Palace to The Banqueting House, where a scaffold was erected for his execution. He had been charged with high treason at the end of the Civil War and his Death Warrant had been signed by 59 commissioners. For the next 11 years, England would have no monarch. Read on: bit.ly/CharlesIBH | Historic Royal Palaces

Nine months after the execution of her husband King Louis XVI, a tribunal tried Marie Antoinette for high treason, sexual promiscuity and incest. Her son Louis-Charles was forced to testify that his mother had molested him. An all-male jury found her guilty and condemned her to death. Marie Antoinette's trial began on 14 October 1793; two days later, she was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed by guillotine on 16 October 1793 at the Place de la Révolution. #Histo

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