The glass kings and fragile minds
Bizarre court etiquette and royal rules
Posthumous rulers and phantom crowns
Animal royalty and sacred beasts
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misslily Posthumous rulers and phantom crowns
He placed the golden crown on his father’s bones, And made the killers carry it right past the thrones.
misslily Pope Formosus was exhumed and put on trial by his successor in one of history's most macabre legal proceedings.
misslily King Charles XIV John of Sweden refused to let doctors examine his body due to a hidden, anti-royalist tattoo.
misslily Drag phantom crowns onto deceased rulers to discover history's strangest royal traditions.
Cadaver Synod: The bizarre 897 AD trial of deceased Pope Formosus ended with his corpse being stripped, mutilated, and thrown into the Tiber River.
The ceremony of crowning a sovereign or a sovereign's consort. In 1360, Portugal's King Pedro I held a posthumous coronation for his deceased lover, Inês de Castro.
What did Pedro I of Portugal force his courtiers to do to the exhumed corpse of Inês de Castro?
In which river was the mutilated body of Pope Formosus thrown after his bizarre trial?
Which Portuguese king exhumed his deceased lover, Inês de Castro, to crown her queen?
What was King Charles XIV John's original French commoner name before ascending the Swedish throne?