stackyFACTSThe absolute worst baggage handler in royal history. While fleeing across a tidal estuary known as the Wash, the king miscalculated the incoming tide, and his entire baggage train was swallowed by the sea. He lost a massive fortune in gold and the official crown, basically cementing his reputation as the most incompetent monarch of his era.
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