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King Charles I did not know that his queen's lady-in-waiting was having an affair with John Pym, an important parliamentarian of the day. She kept Pym well informed about what the king was up to. When the king fell out with Parliament over money, Pym had Charles followed, matters descended and the king ended up under arrest at Carisbrooke Castle, where he got stuck in a window while trying to escape. He was extricated, transported to London, and beheaded. With him no longer available to hand out under-the-table government contracts to his favourite knights, feudalism died on the vine, and the middle class became firmly in control.

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William Lilly is a retired barrister and historian in Canada and England, is a member of the Inns of Court and Middle Temple, London, was a Queen's Counsel (from 1976), and latterly a King's Counsel. Throughout, he has been a director of both private and public companies, one of which led him to participate in the development of surveillance and location technologies which his company represented in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Following World War II, he travelled throughout Europe with the support of the Minister for External Affairs of Canada to observe the reconstruction, formation of governments, and constitutional arrangements of several European, Asian, and African countries, and his information encouraged the government to provide peace-keeping forces at the request of the United Nations. He is a citizen of both Canada and the United Kingdom.

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