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Biographer Robert K. Massie describes attendants rubbing and tickling her feet to keep her awake until daylight. She had seized power in a nighttime coup and feared the same fate. In that account, the unusual routine was about staying awake, not being soothed to sleep.
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Historical accounts describe Ferdinand IV of Naples selling his catch in the public market and haggling with buyers. He later ruled as Ferdinand I of the Two…
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When a prince displeased Empress Anna of Russia, she forced him to sit on a nest of eggs in a freezing room and cluck like a hen for days.
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The Marcha Real developed from an eighteenth-century military march and became associated with royal and state occasions. Proposed lyrics have never become…
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An account of James I's murder in 1437 says he tried to hide beneath his lodging in a Dominican friary in Perth. The drain's exit had recently been stopped up…
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Mary Stuart's execution failed to look dignified. Accounts describe repeated blows before Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded in 1587. When the executioner…
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