Royal Oak

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Royal Oak" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Royal Oak
Descendant of Royal Oak near Boscobel House, Shropshire in 2011
Royal Oak Boscobel House, Shropshire, England
Species	English oak (Quercus robur)
Coordinates	52°40′12″N 2°14′31″W / 52.67008°N 2.24185°W / 52.67008; -2.24185
Date seeded	Original – unknown Descendant of Royal Oak – c.1725 AD Descendant of Royal Oak – 1897 AD Descendant of Royal Oak – 1951 AD Descendant of Royal Oak – 2001 AD
Date felled	Original – c.1725 destroyed as a result of souvenir hunters
Custodian	Francis Yates Partners
Website	English Heritage 'BOSCOBEL HOUSE AND THE ROYAL OAK'

The Royal Oak was the English oak tree within which the future King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The tree was in Boscobel Wood, which was part of the park of Boscobel House. Charles told Samuel Pepys in 1680 that while he was hiding in the tree, a Parliamentarian soldier passed directly below it. The story was popular after the Restoration, and is remembered every year in the English traditions of Royal Oak Day.