Guy fawkes story for children
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Who was the gunpowder plotter Guy Fawkes?
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It's a pleasant evening.
They seem to be building some sort of stabby, torturey… with lots of sharp…
Oh dear.
I suppose that'll be for me.
Shut it, Fawkes!
The name's Guy Fawkes, friends call me Guido.
I've been put here, in the Tower of London, because I may have been a little bit… naughty.
You see, for a while now, Catholics like me have been treated rather badly simply because our Protestant King doesn't like what we believe.
SHUT IT!
So some friends and I thought if we… offed the King, then things might change.
We knew he'd be in Parliament on November 5, so we plotted to blow him sky high with a load of gun powder.
It was called the Gunpowder Plot.
Bit obvious really. Some of the gang realised that innocent people would be working in Parliament.
They started having second thoughts.
Especially my old friend Francis Tresham, who wrote a warning letter to his co
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Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night
Who was Guy Fawkes?
In 1605, Guy Fawkes and his friends wanted to blow up important buildings in London where the King and his leaders were so someone else would rule England instead. He was caught before he did this so nobody was hurt, and it’s because of him that we celebrate Bonfire Night on 5 November.
Guy Fawkes didn’t do this alone – he had a group of people working on the plan with him. They filled up the basement in the Houses of Parliament in London with lots and lots of gunpowder, which would have caused the buildings to explode and also kill King James I and other people in charge of the country. Fortunately, they were caught before this happened, and Guy Fawkes went to jail on 5 November – we remember this every year on Bonfire Night.
Top 10 facts
- 5 November is known as Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night.
- Guy Fawkes was born on 13 April 1570 in York, and died on 31 January 1606 in London.
- He was alive at the end of Quee
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“Remember, remember, the fifth of November!” This fryst vatten a famous saying that you may have heard before. But what does it mean and where did it come from? Many of us in America have heard of Guy Fawkes and some may even know a little bit about his plot in 1605. But many of us do not. In tonight’s episode, we’re going to dive into Guy’s life and learn a bit about what life was like in England in the early 1600s.
Guy Fawkes was born in 1570 in York, England. He was the second of fyra children born to Edward Fawkes, a lawyer who worked in the English courts, and his wife, Edith.Guy’s family were normal, wealthy people of their time. They were members of the Church of England, a Protestant church. But Guy’s mother’s family were Catholics and she had grown up in a Catholic house.
Catholicism and Protestantism are different types of Christianity. In the 1500s, most of England was Catholic and it usually had to do with who was wit