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The Royal Oak is the name given to the oak tree within which King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Species See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Lithocarpus. ...
The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ...
Charles II (29 May 1630–6 February 1685) was the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 30 January 1649 (de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death. ...
The Roundheads was the nickname given to supporters of the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War. ...
The Battle of Worcester was the final battle of the Second English Civil War. ...
// Events January 1 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. ...
History After the defeat of Charles's Royalist army at the hands of Cromwell's New Model Army, the King fled with Lord Derby, Lord Wilmot and other royalists, seeking shelter at the safe houses of Whiteladies Priory and Boscobel House. The noun or adjective, Royalist, can have several shades of meaning. ...
Unfinished portrait miniature of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper, 1657. ...
The New Model Army became the best known of the various Parliamentarian armies in the English Civil War. ...
James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (1607-1651), sometimes styled the Great Earl of Derby, eldest son of William, 6th Earl, and Elizabeth de Vere, daughter of Edward, 17th Earl of Oxford, was born at Knowsley on the 31 January 1607. ...
Wilmots family was descended from Edward Wilmot of Witney, Oxfordshire, whose son Charles, 1st Viscount Wilmot of Athlone, (1570/71–1644) had served with distinction in Ireland. ...
Boscobel House, on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border, England, was built around 1632, when landowner John Gifford of Whiteladies converted a timber-framed farmhouse into a hunting lodge, Boscobel house became one of the most evocative sites in the English historical imagination. ...
The King was among those sheltered at Boscobel House, where he was disguised as a woodman by the owner of the property, Charles Giffard, and the Pendrill family. Their initial attempt to escape to Wales was thwarted by Commonwealth troops, and the King returned to the house. He there met with Colonel Carlos, one of the last royalists to escape the battlefield. The Commonwealth was the republican government which ruled first England and then the whole of Britain, Ireland, the colonies and other Crown possessions during the periods from 1649 (the monarch Charles I being beheaded on January 30 and An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth being passed by the...
As Commonwealth troops approached the house, searching for Royalists, the King and Colonel Carlos spent a day hidden in the Royal Oak, and the next day hidden in a priest hole at Boscobel House. After this, Giffard and the Pendrills were able to smuggle the King and Carlos to France. The concealed entrance to a Priest Hole in Partingdale House, Middlesex (to right of drawing) A priest hole is the term given to hiding places for priests built into many of the principal Middle Ages Roman Catholic houses of England. ...
When King Charles returned to the Kingdom of England and took the throne in 1660, he granted annuities to the Pendrills for their services, and the Pendrills and Colonel Carlos were permitted to amend their coats of arms to depict an oak tree and three royal crowns. The Flag of England The Kingdom of England was a kingdom located in Western Europe, in the southern part of the island of Great Britain. ...
Events Expulsion of the Carib indigenous people from Martinique by French occupying forces. ...
A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ...
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The Oak today The tree standing on the site today is not the original Royal Oak, which is recorded to have been destroyed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by tourists who cut off branches and chunks as souvenirs. The present day tree is believed to be a two or three hundred-year old descendant of the original and is thus known as 'Son of Royal Oak'.
In 2000, Son of Royal Oak was badly injured during a violent storm and lost many branches, becoming a shadow of its former self. Another oak sapling was planted near the site of the original Royal Oak in 2001 by Prince Charles; it was grown from one of the Son's acorns and is thus a grandson of the Royal Oak. This article is about the year 2000. ...
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HRH The Prince of Wales The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor) (born 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ...
Namesakes The name HMS Royal Oak has been given to several Royal Navy ships, including the first battleship to be lost in the Second World War at Scapa Flow on October 14, 1939. Seven (or eleven, depending on how one counts) vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal Oak. ...
The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...
HMS Victory in 1884 In naval warfare, battleships were the most heavily armed and armored warships afloat. ...
World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe...
Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom. ...
October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Also, today, hundreds of pubs bear the name Royal Oak, many of which bear a sign featuring an image of an oak tree and crown. An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada...
See also Oak Apple Day is celebrated in the United Kingdom on 29th May. ...
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External links - First Foot Guards: The Royal Oak
- The Fugitive King
- The Leaking Wreck of H.M.S. Royal Oak
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