It turns out that Royals have been enjoying (?) bizarre deaths a lot more often than we first realized! Among this set’s methods of departure from the world: getting a little too cozy with your enemy’s severed head, life-extension mercury (don’t try this at home!), poorly constructed furniture, laughter, constipation, and, in a bit of a twist, a story about the arguable desecration of Philip the Fair’s corpse by his too-loving widow.
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