A crown could buy almost anything except a clear ending. Across history, kings, queens, emperors, and heirs have died in circumstances that left behind missing bodies, contradictory witnesses, suspicious wounds, and questions that remain remarkably difficult to answer.
Most people think of King John as the sniveling usurper who plagued Robin Hood, but the real man was far more complicated—and far more twisted.
King John is mostly remembered in fictional stories about Robin Hood, but his true history is just as interesting, and often as despicable.
There’s a reason history wants us to forget about these disastrous kings. From insanity to corruption to cruelty, discover these chilling facts about the some of the most despised rulers in England’s history. 1. From...
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