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- It celebrates the famous escape of Charles II in Boscobel Wood, when the future King hid from Parliamentarian soldiers in the branches of a great tree after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the Royal Oak became a popular symbol of patriotism.
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May 9, 2016 · Rather than a symbol of defeat, the Royal Oak became one of defiance, of loyalty to the kingdom and of the stoicism of its subjects. During the 1650s and especially on the occasion of Charles’ Restoration in 1660, the story was celebrated and narrated.
- William Harrison Ainsworth
- 1872
May 11, 2016 · Rather than a symbol of defeat, the Royal Oak became one of defiance, of loyalty to the kingdom and of the stoicism of its subjects. During the 1650s and especially on the occasion of Charles’...
The Royal Oak was the English oak tree within which the future King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The tree was in Boscobel Wood, which was part of the park of Boscobel House.
May 13, 2016 · "Rather than a symbol of defeat, the Royal Oak became one of defiance, of loyalty to the kingdom and of the stoicism of its subjects," de Groot writes. But then, he adds that the story and...
Perhaps the most famous of these is the Royal Oak, in which the future King Charles II is said to have hidden from the Roundheads at Boscobel House following the Battle of Worcester in 1651 during the English Civil War. The king’s own account, dictated some years later to Samuel Pepys, records how he hid in a great oak tree whilst ...
His dramatic escape and subsequent restoration to the throne made both the house and the Royal Oak, as it became known, popular tourist attractions. Boscobel later became a working farm, and its surviving barns and machinery offer a rare insight into 19th-century farming.
It celebrates the famous escape of Charles II in Boscobel Wood, when the future King hid from Parliamentarian soldiers in the branches of a great tree after his defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Following the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the Royal Oak became a popular symbol of patriotism. Previous Next.
