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Originally Posted by Heathrow Harry

well it got rid of absolute monarchy pretty early so we only chopped off 1 head rather than lots of heads like the French & Russians did/////

HH, it's a myth.
E.g., throughout the XIXth сentury number of death executions in Britain and Ireland was about 4K vs. less than 2K in the Russian Empire (and per capita the difference was even higher). As for earlier years, the difference is way bigger. "Facilities" such as the Tyburn death machine (that alone "processed" tens thousands heads) were not popular here.

I assume it's a myth about France either (except for the period of their Revolution in the end of the XVIII-th century)