Like the rest of us, the world’s royals are mere mortals who meet our universal fate in the end. But for some, that end came about in unusual ways – infected simian bites, the ingestion of liquid gold, genital maggots, a surfeit of lampreys, and the sweetest, perhaps: death by pastry.
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