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Was Charles I really beheaded? Of course not. We are told a large crowd was present to witness the execution, but many lines of soldiers surrounded the scaffold, keeping the public at a great distance. 
They admit the public was too far away to hear any of the speeches, which means they were also too far away to make a positive ID on Charles. Although it was common practice to hold the head up and cry “Behold the head of the traitor”, this was not done. Why?
I assume because this was not the head of the traitor Charles. It was the head of some recent corpse they had taken from the morgue.
