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A humorous deepdive into the varied and oftgruesome deaths of the King and Queens of England and Scotland
How the monarchs of England and Scotland met their deaths has been a wonderful mixture of violence infections overindulgence and occasional regicide In Mortal Monarchs medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1000 years of royal deaths to uncover the plots accusations rivalries and everpresent threat of poison that the kings and queens of old faced
From the bloody fascinating story behind Oliver Cromwells demise and the subsequent treatment of his corpse and whether the arrow William II caught in the chest was an accident or murder to Henry IVs remarkable skin condition and the redhot poker up Edward IIs rear end Mortal Monarchs captivates grossesout and informs
In school many of us learned the dates they died and who followed them but sadly never heard the varied and oftgruesome way our monarchs met their maker Featuring original medical research this history forms a rich record not just of how these people died but how we thought about and treated the human body in life and in death
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