HAS HISTORY
BEEN HARD ON
CHARLES I?
For all the king’s undoubted flaws, Tim Harris explains why
we should recognise that the much-maligned monarch was
handicapped by both his father’s failings and chronic bad luck
BRIDGEMAN IMAGESAnthony van Dyck’s portrait
of Charles I, who tried to
take on a series of problems
facing the nation “that
needed to be addressed”Charles I / History’s verdict