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Charles II on the run

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We join historian and author Charles Spencer on location at Boscobel House to discuss Charles II’s desperate flight from parliamentarian forces at the end of the Civil War. Boscobel was famously a hiding place for the king as he sought to escape his foes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It was certainly the six weeks in his life where he felt most alive and most independent.

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He was not a prince, he was not a king.

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He was a man on the run for his life using his wits against his enemy.

0:51.7

That was Charles Spencer on location at Bosca Bull House,

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where Charles II hid from his pursuers. You're listening to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine,

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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast. I'm Rob Atar, the editor of BBC History

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