Charles X of France lived in the lap of luxury, but his ultra-royalist policies ended with a harrowing escape—and a humiliating exile.
From in-law massacres to ponytail strangulations, witness the limits of motherly love with 25 soothing facts about history’s most ruthless matriarchs.
“A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The French Revolution was a decade-long struggle between the classes, beginning in 1789 and ending with a...
Frederick V seemed like he had it all, but the Winter King had powerful enemies, and he would live to see everything he cherished ripped away from him.
Today, people see Queen Barbara of Poland’s marriage to King Sigismund as a “love conquers all” fairy tale—but their unearthed letters tell a darker story.
George III is most remembered for being the king who lost the US in the American Revolution, but there is much more to his fascinating life than that.
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