[image error] The surrender of Oxford to the Parliamentarians in 1646, during the English Civil War, marked more than the loss of a city to the Royalists. They also lost a member of the royal family – but not for long. Prince James, second son of Charles I and still only twelve years old, became Cromwell's prisoner. As a result his household was dismissed and he was sent to London to be placed under house arrest at St James's Palace. Here he, along with his sister Princess Elizabeth and his younger brother...