Charles II hides in the Boscobel oak
1651 · Event
Three days after his army's destruction at Worcester, the 21-year-old Charles II spends a day hidden in an oak tree at Boscobel House while Parliamentarian patrols search the woods below. Six weeks of priest-holes and disguises later he reaches France — and a legend is planted in a thousand pub names.
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