A Deadly Conspiracy
420 years ago, a deadly conspiracy to kill Britain’s king nearly succeeded. What if it had worked?
In 1605, a small band of English Catholics tried to destroy the king, his family and parliament in a single explosion.
It's the evening of 4 November 1605, and a search party has descended into the cellars beneath the Palace of Westminster. Among the stacks of firewood, they find a man, calm and composed, guarding dozens of casks of gunpowder. That man was Guy Fawkes, and within hours from him being found, he was due to light a fuse that would have upended English history.
The discovery of Fawkes foiled the conspiracy and exposed a broader network of Catholic conspirators whose aim was to blow up King James VI and I, along with his government, during the ceremonial opening of parliament.
This is what might have happened if Guy Fawkes had successfully lit the fuse
Author's summary: A 1605 conspiracy to kill Britain's king was foiled.