Two shirts, so he would not be seen shivering on this freezing day - he worried that people might think he was afraid.
Curiously, this was one of the most unmistakable predictions of Nostradamus, the other ones being largely obscured by complex codes and translations.
I would suggest it was chilly, as is evident from this written record of his execution: "Charles was beheaded on Tuesday 30 January 1649. At the execution it is reputed that he wore two cotton shirts as to prevent the cold weather causing any noticeable shivers that the crowd could have mistaken for fear or weakness"
King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland was executed on 30 January 1649. He wore two shirts to hs execution because it was winter and he did not want to shiver frrom the cold because this might be mistaken as a shiver of fear.
1649
Charles II
He wore two shirts because he didn't want a shiver of coldness to be mistaken for a shiver of fear. One of the shirts that he wore is now on display in the English stately home of Longleat House, in Wiltshire. It was the OUTER shirt, as it has fewer blood stains than if it had been the inner one (I think the inner one was burnt soon after the execution took place).
He died
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
The historical significance of the execution of Charles I of England is that it was a clear break with a tradition which went back to the beginnings of the Middle Ages.
Charles the second didn't get executed, Charles the first, his dad did!
thick clothes
that of charles 1