How Kings and Queens Have Died
William the Conqueror died from drink; William Rufus while hunting; Henry 1., gluttony; Henry 11., of broken heart; Richard Coeur de Lion, by an •row; John, it is supposed, poisoned himself; Henry 111. and Edward 1., natural deaths ; Edward 11., murdered ; Edward 111., dotage ; Richard 11., starvation; Henry IV., of fits caused by anxieties; Henry V., suddenly, from cause unknown ; Henry VI., in prison; Edward V., strangled in the Tower; Richard 111., killed in battle; Henry VIL, wasted away; Henry VIII., from bis excesses. Edward VI , of decline ; Mary, of a broken heart ; Elizabeth, of melancholy; James I, drink;' Charles 1., beheaded; Charles 11., apoplexy; William 111., by the fall of his horse j Queen Anne, dropsy; George 1., drunkenness; George 11., rupture of the heart; George 111., insane; Geoige IV.. druqkennefes.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 37, 9 September 1884, Page 3
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138How Kings and Queens Have Died Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 37, 9 September 1884, Page 3
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