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Nostradamus´ greatest hits
The fortress near the Thames
Will fall when the King is locked up within:
Near the bridge in his shirt will be seen
One confronting the death, then barred in the fort.
This is a close hit it seems of the beheading of King Charles the 1st of England in 1649 clad in a white shirt. It is often seen together with Q.9-49 "The Senate of London will put to death their King." But Nostradamus prediction was maybe an educated guess rather than a real prediction: a fatal confrontation with the Parliament was foreseeable and Nostradamus was contemporary of Henry the 8th who executed his wives en masse. Royal heads were rolling and Tower was known for torture and death. That a beheading would take place under those circumstances is no mystery. That King Charles the 1st would be stripped of his royal dress and meet his death in underwear (as a shirt was considered in those days) is natural; also that a royal would be decapitated rather than hanged. Alas the nearby Westminster bridge was not built until about 1750; the only bridge at the time was London Bridge 2 miles away. Close, but not close enough.
So what about the fire of London in 1666 prophesied (Q.2-51) with "twenty threes plus six" being 66? Rather it was a mistaken prophesy about the return of Protestantism in England in 1566. The Quatrain 2-53 prediction of pestilence could refer to the Great Plague of 1665 as popular interpretation has it or it could be in the 1560´es of England. London was hit by plagues in 1563, 1593, 1603, 1625, 1636, and 1665, so choose yourself.
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