Charles I Ben Kingsley The preacher is John Theophilus

The preacher is John Theophilus Desaguiliers

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

Scene at Silvertown following an explosion in a munitions factory

particularly given that if a cocktail might be too bitter to be palatable

Charles I Ben Kingsley The preacher is John TheophilusCharles 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.