Regali-tree

Had a bit of a lazy morning watching -the end- of the Grand Prix and then decided to do something, so after a quick internet search we headed over to Boscobel House.
It's just a seventeenth century farmhouse but its real claim to fame is that after being thrashed by Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Worcester in 1651, King Charles II fled to Boscobel House and hid from the Parlimentarians in the nearby wood, up an oak tree...the Royal Oak.

Unfortunately this isn't the actual Royal Oak anymore. That one was damaged by people taking bits for souvenirs, so this is its sapling. This has since been knackered by storms and hit by lightning, so this is about as close as you can get in case it falls over, but there is another sapling growing nearby so the lineage will continue.
...ooh a history lesson!