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Oct 4, 2023 · A deep dive into the unconventional life of King Edward VIII as a young man. Watch the full documentary A Very Royal Crisis: Countdown to Abdication on BBC Select New research shows that a ...
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The Abdication of King Edward VIII, ed. Taylor, A. J. P. (New York, 1966), p. 70 Google Scholar. In this respect Edward resembled the Hamlet presented by Ernest Jones in his study Hamlet and Oedipus. According to Jones, Hamlet's behavior led him increasingly into danger because the only actions he could take were those which would ...
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Jan 31, 2023 · At the age of 35, David was unmarried and had no children. According to "Before Wallis – Edward VIII's Other Women" (via the Sydney Institute) there had been a flicker of hope back in 1917, when David fell in love with a nurse named Rosemary Leveson-Gower. But Rosemary wasn't just a nurse, she was also the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of ...
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Nobody quite knows what particular mental illness caused Caligula to become the mad ruler of legend, but whatever it was really did a number on him. Just months into his reign, he changed from a personable young man who everybody approved of to a deranged tyrant, seemingly at the flick of a switch. Whatever tipped him over the edge, the rest of his...
After the coffers of France had been stuffed to bursting by the frugal Charles V, the late king’s financial legacy was squandered by the regents that controlled the country while his son Charles VI was in his minority. By the time Charles declared the regency over, the country was on its knees, high taxes had been reintroduced and civil unrest was ...
The legendary Henry V was a hell of a figure to live up to. Unfortunately, his son fell far short of the mark. Unlike his all-conquering warrior father, Henry VI was a shy, retiring, deeply religious man who didn’t have what it took to govern the kingdom effectively. As a result, England descended into bloody civil war. Henry suffered his first men...
The daughter of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, Joanna of Castile should have ruled the kingdom of Castile when her mother died in 1504. Unfortunately, her husband Philip of Burgundy and her father had other ideas. Following Isabella’s death, both Philip and Ferdinand coveted her throne, and conspired to deny Joanna her...
Sweden’s King Eric XIV managed three years on the throne before losing his mind. From the start of his reign in 1560, Eric had had a fractious relationship with the country’s nobility, in particular with his half brother John. After three years rubbing his nobles up the wrong way, Eric tipped into full-blown insanity, becoming ever more violent and...
George had already been on the throne for 28 years when he was struck down by his first prolonged bout of mental illness in 1788. Gibbering for hours on end and foaming at the mouth, the king’s illness was deemed serious enough for a bill to be drawn up in Parliament for his son, George IV, to become regent. Before the bill could pass, George recov...
During her reign, Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar was seen as a dreadful tyrant who ruled her island nation with a cruelty that astonished visitors. Famously, she subjected her people to something called ‘trial by ordeal’. This involved the forced ingestion of three pieces of chicken skin alongside a poison taken from the native tangena shrub. If ...
May 15, 2017 · The uncompromising formality that characterised George V’s dealings with his children contributed to Edward VIII’s adult immaturity and George VI’s chronic shyness, speech impediment...
Mar 20, 2024 · Edward VII, the so-called “Edward the Caresser,” was afflicted with severe bronchitis, and the cause of George III’s mental illness is still mysterious, even today.
The 'Natural Fool' at court. These fascinating glimpses of 'natural fools' at the Tudor court show people with learning disabilities playing significant roles in the lives of the Tudor elite. Their perceived lack of guile, their directness and their humour were valued as assets and woven into the fabric of court life.
