Windsor, 9th February 1649. In the snow, the body of the executed Charles I is taken to St George's Chapel, where his coffin was carried by the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Hertford and the Earls of Southampton and Lindsey. In the foreground, Bishop Juxon finds his way barred by a Parliamentary officer. The king's body was lowered into the vault which holds the bodies of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour.

When it was Oliver Cromwell's turn to die in 1658, he was buried in Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey, the usual burial place of kings and queens of England until that date. But two years later, at the Restoration of the monarchy, his body was unceremoniously disinterred, and hung at Tyburn.