MONARCHICAL MISERY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 6, 12 September 1879, Page 3

MONARCHICAL MISERY.

" ♦ — r ~^T •■■ Under this heading 'the Chigago Sunday Times printed the following list of "tho terrible endings which bofel the Kings and Queens of England":— William the Conqueror, died from (enormous fat, from drink, aud from the violence of his passions. William Eufus died the <)eathof; the>poor Stags vwhich, he .huiiH'd. Henry I died of gluttony. Homy 11, died of a broken heart, occasioned by 'the bad conduct of his phldron. t l*ich--ard Cceur de Lion, like the animal from which his^heai'j -was named', died by an ari-ow fpom an archer. John died, nobody kriows how, but, it is said from chagrin, which, we suppose, is another tprm for a of hellebore. Henrj 111. is said to haye died a " natural death " Edward I. is also said io have died of a •• natural .sicfenesb'^r'a eicknesa

which would puzzlo all the college physicians to denominate. Edward 11. was barbarously and indecently murdered by ruffians employed by his own wife and her paramour. Edward 111. died of dotage, and RichKichard II of starvation — tho very reverse of George IV. Henry IV. is said to havo died of Gfs causad by uneasiness, and uneasiness in palaces in those times was a very common complaint. Henry V. is said to have died of a painful affliction, prematurely. This is a courtly term for getting rid of a king. Henry VI. died in prison, by nv^ns known then only to his jailoi v and. now on!) known in heaven. Edward V. was strangled in the tower by his uncle, Eichard 111. R ichard 111 was killed in battle. Henry VII wasted away as a miser ought to'do . Henry VIII. died of carbuucles, fat, and fury. Edward VI died of decline. Queen Mary is said to have died of a broken heart. Old Queen Bess is said to have died of melancholy, from having sacrificed Essex to hisenemies. James I. died of drinking and the effects of vice. Charles I. died on the scaffold. Charles 11. died suddenly — it is said of appoplexy. William 111. died of consumptive habits of body and from the stumbling of his horse. Queen Anne died from dropsy. George I. died from drunkenness, which his physicians politely called an apoplectic fit. George 11. died of a rupture of the heart, which', the periodicals of the day termed a visitation of God. George 111. died as he had lived- a madman. Throughout life he was at Jeast a consistent monarch. George IV. died of gluttony and drunkenness.