stackyFACTSThe ultimate case of extreme career hypocrisy. Before unexpectedly becoming the King of Sweden, he was a hardcore French revolutionary who got a massive tattoo reading 'Death to Kings,' which he spent his entire royal reign desperately hiding from his doctors.
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