Talk:Execution of Charles I

"the most likely"
There are two "most likely" candidates for possible executioner. Obviously only one can be the most likely, so which one should it be, William Hulet or Richard Brandon? MattSucci (talk) 09:36, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Actual location - wording
The wording here, and in the main Charles I article, about the actual specific location of the execution, could do with some clarification. Here we say "outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall" and the Charles I says "an execution scaffold had been erected in front of the Banqueting House". It would seem, solely from the German drawing, that the scaffold was built in the street called Whitehall, outside the rear of the Banqueting House (the Banqueting House having no doors onto Whitehall, but instead its "front" facing the rest of the Palace of Whitehall. I know it might seem like comma-pedantry, but "outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall" can be taken to mean "outside the Banqueting Hall, which is in Whitehall" (the area of the city), and isn't quite the same as "outside the Banqueting House, in Whitehall".

But saying "on Whitehall" would make it clear we mean the street specifically.

If the German picture locates it correctly, I think both articles should say "on Whitehall, outside the Banqueting House". -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 15:43, 5 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Good point. The website for the Royal Banqueting House specifies the execution was on "the pavement of Whitehall", and the fact that you mentioned about the Banqueting House opening only onto the Palace of Whitehall fits with the footnote mentioning the king likely exited through a window. I'll change the lead appropriately. Tenpop421 (talk) 22:46, 7 February 2022 (UTC)