Royal Kill List is a three-part history docudrama which tells the epic story of bloody revenge during a pivotal period of English history. This is a story about espionage, revenge, power, loyalty, and the moment that changed the landscape of British politics and society forever. This series follows King Charles II’s hunt for his father’s (King Charles I) killers – the Regicides - as a window into a remarkable and often overlooked historical period to explore how we became the nation we are today.
Episode 1 - The Death Warrant
In 1649, 59 men sign Charles I’s death warrant and he is beheaded in front of a crowd in London. His son, Charles II, is invited to restore the monarchy after a decade in exile and returns to Britain with revenge on his mind.
Episode 1 - The Death Warrant
In 1649, 59 men sign Charles I’s death warrant and he is beheaded in front of a crowd in London. His son, Charles II, is invited to restore the monarchy after a decade in exile and returns to Britain with revenge on his mind.
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00:00Divide
00:27Divide
00:32Divide
00:37I can't cope
00:45This is unheard of.
00:48It's the first and only time in British history that a reigning monarch has been executed.
00:58This was the lawful execution of a war criminal, a last resort to save countless lives.
01:08They have murdered a king, but that king has a son, and his name is also Charles.
01:16Long live the king.
01:27This is Charles Stuart. He's lost his country, his crown, and now his father.
01:34Isolated in exile, he writes a vow.
01:38We are firmly resolved to chase, pursue, kill, and destroy those bloody traitors who committed our dear father's murder.
01:50This is the story of how a king's desire for revenge pushes his country to the brink.
02:20It's 1660. England's emerging from a long Puritan winter.
02:48It's been 11 years since the regicides killed Charles, and Oliver Cromwell declared England a republic.
02:57When Parliament tried to rein in Charles I's power, the king declared war, and Oliver Cromwell led a parliamentary army against him.
03:08Defeated in the Civil War, Charles was executed.
03:13But by 1658, England under Cromwell is a military dictatorship, with high taxes and oppressive religious laws.
03:26Until suddenly, Cromwell dies, and a power vacuum opens up.
03:34Now England's people are longing for a change, but who will give it to them?
03:43Now eyes turn to Holland, where a young prince is living in exile, the 29-year-old son of Charles I.
03:57Charles Stuart. Well, the last decade's been a bit of a blur. Drinking, gambling, whores. Is he happy? He'd rather be king, but it passes the time.
04:09While the bastards who murdered his father are ruling England.
04:15But news has just arrived from London that turns everything on its head.
04:21The Republican Parliament is offering a deal. Charles can come back to England as king, as long as he agrees to be under their control, unlike his father.
04:32Suddenly, the return that seemed impossible, seems possible.
04:40Did you ever think it wouldn't happen? That we wouldn't go back to England?
04:45Meet James, Duke of York, Charles's brother. He's a loose cannon, but he's the only one to stick with Charles while everyone else left him for dead.
04:54He's the only man Charles trusts.
04:57No. Never.
04:59No. Never.
05:01Liar. I know you too well.
05:07No, you don't know me at all. I always knew I'd come back.
05:12Yeah, but Parliament invited you.
05:14Parliament didn't invite me, James. God did. The one true Christian God who ordained me as his representative on Earth.
05:24You were to God? And to King Charles?
05:35Look, to understand Charles, you've got to first understand what it is to be king.
05:41Like his father and grandfather before him, Charles believes he was literally appointed by God to rule England.
05:49Born with a silver spoon in his mouth? Charles never had to wipe his own ass.
05:56This magnificent ceiling by Rubens was commissioned by Charles's father in 1629 to glorify the House of Stuart.
06:06There's an infant Charles II, receiving the crown from his grandfather, James I.
06:12Ever since he was born, Charles has been the future of the Stuart dynasty.
06:18You've got God up here, then the king, then the peasants, and it worked perfectly well for centuries.
06:26Until Cromwell turned up with his merry band of murderous killjoys.
06:34Charles loved his father more than anything he wanted to do.
06:39Charles loved his father more than anything he wants to kill the regicides, the 59 men who signed his father's death warrant.
06:47But first, he needs to get his throne back.
06:51But Charles's return to the throne isn't a done deal.
06:55First, he must reassure Parliament that his desire for revenge won't plunge the country into another bloody civil war.
07:04That's where this guy comes in, Edward Hyde, chief advisor to Charles.
07:12Hyde is determined that Charles won't repeat the mistakes of his father.
07:19England's not the country you remember, Your Majesty.
07:24Is it not still a damp shithole filled with hypocrites?
07:27It's a popular belief that all men are created equal.
07:32Even a king?
07:34I'm afraid so.
07:36Even the cunts who killed my father?
07:39Especially them.
07:41Charles has dazzling charisma, but like all the Stuarts, he's prone to arrogance and recklessness.
07:48Hyde must find a compromise to suit both sides.
07:52It's a big ask.
07:53You must banish all memories of your father.
07:59Show them that a king can be moderate.
08:03That a king can exist within a republic.
08:06That a king can kill as many people as he so fucking wishes?
08:10Seven people.
08:15Seven.
08:16Seven.
08:18Seven.
08:19Seven.
08:24Seven.
08:26Why seven?
08:28Well, ten seems too many, five not enough.
08:32Hyde calculates that executing seven people is enough to make Charles appear strong,
08:39without antagonizing everyone who opposes his return.
08:42Don't underestimate Charles. Yes, he's untested, but he's also smart and self-aware.
08:49Desperate as he is to see regicide heads on spikes, Charles knows he must be the politician his father never was.
08:57So, Charles orders Hyde to come up with this.
09:02The Declaration of Breda.
09:04Out of the dozens of men who killed Charles I,
09:07it sanctions the execution of only seven.
09:10And what's more, the list will be determined not by Charles himself,
09:15but by Parliament.
09:17Parliament will take the heat and Charles will rise above the fray.
09:26The task of drawing up the list of seven falls to this man,
09:30the Tower of London's record keeper.
09:32William Prynne.
09:34William Prynne's a royalist fanatic who spent a decade in the political wilderness.
09:40His face bears the scars of his uncompromising beliefs.
09:45But Prynne has a major problem.
09:48The death warrant has vanished.
09:50And without it, Prynne has no hard evidence to convict the regicides he so fervently hates.
09:57Brother Prynne.
09:59How long has it been?
10:04And there's no one he hates more than himself.
10:08Charles I.
10:10Charles I.
10:12Charles I.
10:14Charles I.
10:16Charles I.
10:18Charles I.
10:20Charles I.
10:22Charles I.
10:24And there's no one he hates more than this guy.
10:29Edmund Ludlow.
10:31Triple threat.
10:33A brilliant military general who led the feared New Model Army.
10:36A skilful politician.
10:39And a traitorous bastard who signed the King's death warrant.
10:42Is he tough?
10:44Absolutely.
10:46Violent?
10:48Yes.
10:50And right now, he's the biggest threat to Charles.
10:53If anyone opposed the return of the King, Ludlow is the man they'd rally round.
10:58Remind me what the letters stand for, you stupid layabout.
11:02Shit liquor.
11:06Seditious libel.
11:08You see, in his youth, Prynne did something foolish.
11:12He declared that women who perform on stage are no different from prostitutes.
11:17On the very day the Queen made her stage debut.
11:19Charles I had Prynne's ears sliced off and letters carved into his cheeks.
11:25Despite this, Prynne's monarchism hasn't dimmed.
11:29It's turbocharged.
11:31In anticipation of the King's God-ordained return.
11:35He returns at the pleasure of Parliament.
11:41I'm taking the names of the regicides who killed his father.
11:46Prynne knows that many of the men who killed the King now sit in Parliament.
11:51And he knows Edmund Ludlow is top of the list.
11:55You know who you are.
11:57Prynne just needs to prove it.
12:03Ludlow knows that the clock is now ticking.
12:10Charles has set sail to return to England.
12:12And it's only a matter of time before the death warrant is found.
12:17Ludlow's options are narrowing by the day.
12:20He can feel the republic he dedicated his life to crumbling around him.
12:25Run and hide, then.
12:27He'd rather die.
12:29No.
12:31He must wait to see if the King will work with Parliament as he's promised.
12:35Maybe.
12:37Just maybe.
12:38There's a chance he could work with Charles.
12:42Would you trust him?
12:54After almost 14 years as a fugitive, and on his 30th birthday,
12:59Charles Stewart finally arrives back on English soil.
13:03Charles returns to England.
13:05He has no idea which of these men murdered his father.
13:09In a sea of bowed heads and shit-eating grins,
13:13who can he trust?
13:35Never!
13:37Twice!
13:39The land is on fire!
13:50Welcome, Your Majesty.
14:00This book's caused me enough trouble, don't you think, Prynne?
14:06Oh, Your Majesty, how we've missed you.
14:09We could have done with a few of your jokes these past years.
14:13Remember, these are men who only months ago
14:17would have slit Charles's throat to claim a reward.
14:20You're welcome. It seems I should never have left.
14:27May I remind you, which of you cunts killed my father?
14:32Was it you?
14:34Was it you?
14:47Was it you?
14:56Was it you?
14:57Was it you?
15:02I could forgive almost anybody.
15:05Except my horse, who threw me off yesterday.
15:08I'm gonna have that fucker killed, and then I'm gonna fucking eat him!
15:20Good day.
15:27Good day.
15:38How to be a king?
15:40There's no handbook.
15:42Inspire a bit of fear, project a bit of majesty.
15:45Basically, keep them on their toes.
15:52As Charles settles into his London life, as king-in-waiting,
15:55his constant companion is his new mistress,
15:59much to the disgust of his spurned brother, James.
16:05You're gonna kill seven people?
16:07What about the rest of them? Make them fucking Jews?
16:10It's politics, James. Even if I explained, you wouldn't get it.
16:13It's got to you.
16:15I want their heads on spikes as much as you do, brother.
16:17Oh, in London, we're so over heads on spikes.
16:22This is Barbara Villiers,
16:25his new mistress.
16:27She's worked her way into his inner circle,
16:30sensing an opportunity.
16:32Barbara is already married,
16:34but she's symptomatic of this new world
16:36where you can be anything you want.
16:39Barbara, well, she's a lot of fun.
16:42But what he really likes
16:44is that she doesn't try to bullshit him.
16:47He knows exactly what she wants.
16:49They're cut from the same cloth.
16:50Your greatest danger isn't the regicides
16:53and tired old men like Hyde.
16:55It's the pretenders and sycophants.
16:58When any one of them could have had a hand in father's murder.
17:04No one lost more than I did.
17:06I lost my father.
17:08Well, so did I.
17:10Barbara's father was killed in the Civil War,
17:13leaving his family destitute.
17:15This opportunity feels as personal for Barbara
17:18as it does for Charles.
17:20She knows Charles doesn't trust anyone,
17:23and that's a problem.
17:25If she can help him navigate London society,
17:29she thinks she'll be rewarded.
17:31One whiff of power and you're here like a rat.
17:34Charles knows of my ambition.
17:37I've made no secret of them.
17:41The Declaration of Breda.
17:43More like the Declaration of fucking Breda.
17:46More like the Declaration of fucking Barbara.
17:51James, how to put this,
17:54he's not a man of intellect.
17:56He's a man of action.
17:58He sees the world in black and white.
18:00He wants Charles to go on a killing spree
18:03to intimidate his enemies.
18:06Luckily, Charles has more self-control than his brother.
18:10He hasn't forgotten about revenge,
18:13but he knows he needs to play Hyde's game.
18:17With the king back on English soil,
18:20Prince Hunt for the seven leading regicides
18:24and the royal death warrant
18:26goes into overdrive.
18:29Royalist agents search every record office,
18:33noble house,
18:35and library in England for the death warrant.
18:38Royalist MPs take over Parliament
18:41and order all those who assisted
18:43in the horrid and detestable murder of Charles I
18:48to hand themselves in.
18:50For the hunted men,
18:52it's a classic catch-22.
18:54Stay and risk arrest
18:56or flee and move to the top of the list.
19:04Edmund.
19:06Edmund, will you listen to me?
19:08Do you think Ludlow is formidable?
19:10Meet his wife, Elizabeth.
19:13She's a fierce political operator in her own right.
19:17Elizabeth can see straight through Charles' promises of forgiveness.
19:21She knows there won't just be seven.
19:24She also knows her husband's too pig-headed to see he's in danger.
19:28You lost your command, Edmund.
19:31They stripped you of your seat.
19:33You think they won't find a way to destroy you?
19:36It is up to Parliament to decide which men to indict.
19:40Even if your name's not on the list,
19:41you think William Prynne will settle for killing only seven men?
19:46You've signed the death warrant.
19:49And I will never apologise for it.
19:52Anyone who still has a copy has a sense to destroy it.
19:55You have to remember, Ludlow's fighting for an idea
19:58that a king has to be accountable to Parliament.
20:02And with the army and the country's purse strings still in Parliament's control,
20:06the king will have his hands tied.
20:08Charles Stewart needs independent-minded men like me to curb his worst excesses,
20:12not weak-minded feminine men who flee at the first sign of trouble.
20:18Every idea you have had in your life
20:21has you at the heart of it right until they execute you.
20:26And then you'll be no use to anyone.
20:30With rumours swirling about the existence of the warrant,
20:33everyone's trying to avoid being identified as one of the seven ringleaders.
20:39Well, almost everyone.
20:44Yes, I killed the king!
20:48But anyone who comes for me
20:51will have the Lord Jesus Christ to tempt with.
20:55He takes no fucking prisoners!
21:00Meet Thomas Harrison.
21:01While most regicides are terrified of being implicated in the execution of the king,
21:06Harrison is shouting it from the rooftops.
21:09According to the word of Christ!
21:13According! According as it is written!
21:17Like Ludlow, Harrison signed the death warrant, but there the similarities end.
21:22Harrison's a fifth monarchist, an extremist.
21:26He believes the execution of King Charles I has paved the way for a new king.
21:31The way for the apocalypse.
21:36For you shall reign!
21:39Harrison has no fear of death.
21:42In fact, he craves it.
21:44You see, the sooner he's martyred, the sooner he can return to earth
21:48as a soldier in Jesus' army of the second coming.
21:52Wait on the Lord.
21:54Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thy soul.
21:58Wait on the Lord.
22:00Thomas Harrison!
22:03What took you so long, gentlemen?
22:06We believe you sat in judgment on King Charles.
22:09Sat in judgment?
22:11Do you deny it?
22:14I pressed for his trial.
22:16I took personal charge of getting him there.
22:19I attended every fucking session.
22:24If you've got a list, I'm top of it.
22:31Is he deranged?
22:33Probably.
22:35Fanatical? Definitely.
22:37But remember, he's far from alone.
22:39This is a time of fear.
22:41Is he deranged?
22:43Probably.
22:45But remember, he's far from alone.
22:47This is a time of deep superstition.
22:51Angels and devils walk the earth.
22:54Innocent women are burned as witches.
22:59Expect no mercy!
23:01No, brother, no.
23:04No, it is you who will receive no mercy.
23:08Bastard reticide.
23:11This is the first of the seven king killers to be secured.
23:18Charles has the first regicide on his kill list.
23:21Narrowing down the others is no easy task.
23:25A regicide behind bars? Feels great.
23:28One down, six to go.
23:33Harrison's arrest sends a shockwave through the Republicans.
23:37Of the 59 who signed the death warrant,
23:40many now go into hiding in England.
23:44Others flee across the Channel,
23:47and some to the Puritan colonies of the New World.
23:52These are good men whose only crime was loving their country.
23:57And with his enemies on the run, Charles builds public support.
24:01He orders theatre, live music, and folk celebrations,
24:05all banned under Cromwell.
24:07To begin again.
24:09England under the new king will be one long party.
24:14Ludlow knows star quality when he sees it.
24:17Unlike his father, Charles can work a crowd.
24:21Now this poses a huge dilemma for Ludlow.
24:25You see, he fought a war for the right of people
24:28to choose how they're going to live.
24:31They're governed, so if they want a king,
24:34this king,
24:36well then he has a stark choice.
24:39Stay and hand himself in, or run away,
24:43and leave his beloved England.
24:44I'm looking for your husband.
24:46Anyone who's lived under the tyrant's boot knows this is how it starts.
24:50No warning, no summons,
24:54just the dreaded knock at the door at the dead of night.
24:58I am the King of England,
25:01and I will be your husband.
25:04I am the King of England,
25:07and I will be your husband.
25:10I am the King of England,
25:12and I will be your husband.
25:15Don't let me know when you find him.
25:17I've hardly seen him.
25:31I hear you've been sticking your nose into political affairs.
25:35You are mistaken.
25:37Politics is no sphere for a wife.
25:40If you were my wife,
25:42I'd have no choice but to punish you.
25:47But I never had a wife,
25:50good or bad.
25:56It's a perpetual source of shame to my sex
26:00that you did not.
26:02Rats.
26:04We're overrun with them.
26:06Or a priesthole.
26:10Edmund's many things,
26:12but he's neither a Catholic nor a priest.
26:16Parliament's already agreed to execute seven men for regicide.
26:22It's not nearly enough.
26:25I have three times as many names.
26:27You've found the warrant?
26:30It's a matter of time.
26:32One way or another,
26:35your husband will be on the list.
26:39Sweet lady.
26:49Ladle is a soldier.
26:51He's a man of his word.
26:53He's a man of his word.
26:55Ladle is a soldier.
26:57Running away from a fight goes against every fibre in his being.
27:01But,
27:03there's a fine line between being brave and being reckless.
27:07Ladle makes his decision.
27:12He's going on the run.
27:14Smart boy.
27:15Smart boy.
27:21It's been six weeks since Charles Stewart returned to England,
27:25and as Royalist agents search for his father's death warrant,
27:28Charles enjoys the perks of being king.
27:32Charles has an emptiness at his heart,
27:35which he tries to fill with hedonistic excess.
27:40Emptiness?
27:42Charles is loving this.
27:43He spent ten years as a nobody.
27:45Give me a break.
27:47By any standards, he's a handsome guy,
27:49but as a king,
27:51he's a fucking rock star.
27:53Women are throwing themselves at him.
27:55Get over it.
28:07Who are they?
28:10Whores and knaves, the lot of them.
28:13They're the cream of London society.
28:17Your willing servants, eager to do your bidding.
28:20They'll chop your balls off.
28:24Well, they'll do more than that.
28:27James hates Barbara's influence on Charles.
28:30He's convinced she's blunting his desire for revenge.
28:38You might have him forward,
28:40but not me.
28:43Ha ha ha!
28:48Barbara wants revenge,
28:50but she wants money and power even more.
28:54She might be playing the accommodating woman,
28:57but don't be fooled.
28:59Barbara is on the make.
29:02Enabling Charles' worst excesses is how she controls him.
29:07You know the bastard regicides are walking around free men?
29:11Everyone knows who they are,
29:13apart from you, apparently.
29:16Fuck you.
29:18James doesn't see why there needs to be a death warrant
29:21to start convicting regicides,
29:23and he's convinced the delay
29:25is sending a dangerous signal to their enemies.
29:28What's happened to you, Charles?
29:30I became king!
29:32I became king!
29:33What's happened to you, Charles?
29:35I became king!
29:37The people don't fear you.
29:39They pity you.
29:42Everyone says the same thing.
29:44Charlie's cunt-struck.
29:46Fuck you.
30:04James can provoke his brother better than anyone.
30:08And what he wants
30:10is to get Charles to take control
30:12of the hunt for the regicides.
30:16Why exactly did Charles let Hyde
30:18talk him into Parliament choosing the names?
30:21Fuck Hyde.
30:23There's one thing Charles really can't tolerate.
30:26Feeling guilty.
30:28Feeling guilty.
30:30Feeling guilty.
30:31I can't tolerate
30:33feeling powerless.
30:43Your Majesty.
30:45Where's my fucking list print?
30:49Dittering little prick.
30:55Find me
30:57the seven most guilty.
30:58With the right evidence
31:00we can kill far more than seven men.
31:04But we do need evidence.
31:06The evidence he needs
31:08is the death warrant.
31:10Sure they could kill seven people now
31:12but if they can prove who signed it
31:14they could kill many more.
31:17You're fine compared with me.
31:19My father was a fucking pussycat.
31:22At least he left you with a face.
31:23What?
31:25Sort of.
31:36The King wants results
31:38and fast.
31:40So Prynne ramps up the hunt
31:42tearing apart the homes of suspected regicides
31:45whipping up fear and paranoia.
31:49Until finally
31:50until finally
31:58My Lord.
31:59Not now.
32:02There's something you should see.
32:08What is it my dear?
32:11What's in my husband's desk?
32:12What's in my husband's desk?
32:20Thomas Hacker.
32:22Isabel Hacker's married to a prominent Republican officer
32:26and she's found what everyone's been looking for.
32:30His name is not listed.
32:32This proves he cannot be a regicide.
32:43Oh my dear lady.
32:47It's addressed to your husband.
32:51He's guilty as fucking Judas.
33:08At the eleventh hour
33:10at the eleventh hour
33:12Prynne has struck gold.
33:14There are 59 names on the warrant
33:17more than anyone expected
33:19and anyone who's on it
33:21had better find a good place to hide.
33:32Here it is.
33:35A smoking gun.
33:37Each of these signatures is unequivocal evidence
33:40of a king's murder in cold blood.
33:43Again with the cold blood.
33:45This was a war crimes trial.
33:47These men set an historic precedent
33:50in a court of law
33:52tyrants must be held to account.
34:00Murdering bastard.
34:07I want them all hide.
34:24This is the moment.
34:27Seeing these names
34:29how many of them there are.
34:31What king, what man
34:33wouldn't want to subject them to the most excruciating
34:36deaths imaginable.
34:40Now all he has to do is find and kill them.
34:45I want them all.
35:00In August 1660
35:02Charles II's government passes the act
35:04of indemnity and oblivion.
35:11It indicts ten regicides who were in custody
35:14including Thomas Harrison.
35:17They face death in the most
35:19heinous way imaginable.
35:21They will be hung, drawn
35:23and quartered.
35:25Their butchered bodies sent
35:27to the four corners of the kingdom.
35:29But 19 of these men have gone on the run
35:31and are now at large.
35:33Chief among them
35:35Edmund Lunloe.
35:37Men who unwisely
35:39turn themselves in
35:41or were captured like Thomas Harrison
35:43are facing their day of reckoning.
35:48I demand to know the indictment.
35:51That instigated
35:53by the demon you summoned
35:55to take away the life of Charles Stuart
35:57the late king of England.
35:59Oh you think that were a demon?
36:01I just wear it for what's coming.
36:04It's a farce.
36:06Charles has rigged the trial
36:08so there can only be one outcome.
36:10It's only fair.
36:12Charles' father wasn't allowed a lawyer.
36:14Why should they be?
36:16With the first regicide finally sentenced
36:19and the execution date fixed
36:21the stage is set
36:23for a public bloodbath.
36:28Kill the regicide bastards!
36:31Kill the regicide bastards!
36:33Kill the regicide bastards!
36:35Kill the regicide bastards!
36:37Kill the regicide bastards!
36:39Finally Charles can cross some names off his list
36:42and get down to the fun part
36:44staging public executions.
36:54However many of us you kill
36:57the idea we die for will rise
36:59again and again
37:02until the return of the one true king
37:07Jesus Christ.
37:29Sadistic? No. No, no, no, no.
37:31This isn't an abattoir.
37:33These rituals have been
37:35carefully thought through.
37:37They're richly symbolic.
37:39Castration, for example.
37:41It's a ritual.
37:43It's a ritual.
37:45It's a ritual.
37:47It's a ritual.
37:49It's a ritual.
37:51It's a ritual.
37:53It's a ritual.
37:55It's a ritual.
37:57It's a ritual.
37:59It demonstrates that the man's descendants
38:02will be disinherited.
38:04The most evil part of a man
38:06is of course his gut
38:08so fire cleanses the infected area.
38:16It's a day of joy
38:18for my soul.
38:30The head in turn
38:32contains traitorous thoughts
38:34so must be removed from the body.
38:37Finally it's turned
38:39in the direction of the crime
38:42so it can reflect for all eternity.
38:47And the greatest remaining hope
38:49for the republicans, Edmund Ludlow
38:51is still at large.
38:56As long as he remains at liberty
38:57there's still hope
38:59for the republican cause
39:01but Charles is pulling out
39:03all the stops to bring him in.
39:19Where are you, Edmund?
39:25An underground network
39:27of dissidents helps Ludlow escape.
39:36Charles was once hunted like an animal
39:38so it's deeply satisfying
39:40to know his enemies are running in fear
39:42of their lives.
39:44But Charles' bloodlust
39:46has blinded him into making a huge mistake.
39:52The powerful final speeches
39:54of Thomas Harrison and other regicides
39:55are now used by republicans
39:57to stir dissent.
40:02Spread across England
40:04by a rapid new innovation
40:06print media.
40:09It's a masterstroke of PR
40:11and no one is more concerned about it
40:13than Charles' chief advisor
40:15Edward Hyde.
40:21The men are dying too well.
40:23We're making martyrs of them.
40:27The art of battle
40:29is knowing when to stop.
40:31They might as well tell me
40:33to stop taking this shit, Hyde.
40:38You will regret it
40:40if you don't.
40:42My dear Hyde
40:44you never regret the ones you kill.
40:46The ones that you don't kill
40:48will keep you up at night.
40:50What I give to have
40:52a crumb of life
40:54and rip his fucking face open.
40:58I press my thumbs into his eyes
41:00and I scrape out the jelly
41:02so the last thing he ever saw
41:04was me.
41:18Shall we?
41:23This is a sickening moment.
41:25Hyde brokered Charles' return
41:27hoping he could be
41:29the moderate king
41:31that Hyde believes
41:33is the ideal form of government
41:35and killing the regicides
41:37has only inflamed
41:39an already volatile situation.
41:41You want to know who Charles really was?
41:43This.
41:45This is it.
41:47Petty.
41:49Vindictive.
41:50Charles has decided
41:52what kind of king he'll be.
41:54No more compromise.
41:56No more magnanimity.
41:58Only bloody revenge.
42:12But until he brings
42:14Edmund Ludlow to heel
42:16his bloodlust will never be sated
42:18and Ludlow
42:21he won't sit by
42:23while his country sinks into despotism.
42:25He may be on the run
42:27but he's more determined than ever
42:29to take the fight to Charles.
42:38Fuck Charles Stewart.
42:50They've forgotten what
42:52strong leadership looks like.
42:54Charles' vendetta is backfiring.
42:57You want to talk about murder?
42:59This is murder.
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