Charles I Ben Kingsley View of the entrance to

View of the entrance to Christ Church Passage at Christ's Hospital

King of Great Britain

View of Covent Garden Market with fruit and vegetable stalls in the piazza and an apple seller seated beneath a lamppost in the foreground

The preacher is John Theophilus Desaguiliers

Charles I Ben Kingsley View of the entrance toCharles I, King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1625, (1932). Charles I (1600 1649) succeeded his father James I as King in 1625. His reign was dominated by a bitter dispute with Parliament over the extent of royal power, which culminated in 1642 in the English Civil War, and Charles' eventual execution for treason. From Kings and Queens by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon, 1932.