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Goldsboro Books

978-1472294227

Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths

Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths

by Suzie Edge

Publisher Wildfire

Genre: Non-Fiction

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About the book

How the monarchs of England and Scotland met their deaths has been a wonderful mixture of violence, infections, overindulgence and occasional regicide. In Mortal Monarchs, medical historian Dr Suzie Edge examines 1,000 years of royal deaths to uncover the plots, accusations, rivalries, and ever-present threat of poison that the kings and queens of old faced.

From the "bloody" fascinating story behind Oliver Cromwell's demise and the subsequent treatment of his corpse and whether the arrow William II caught in the chest was an accident or murder, to Henry IV's remarkable skin condition and the red-hot poker up Edward II's rear end, Mortal Monarchs captivates, grosses-out, and informs.

In school many of us learned the dates they died and who followed them, but sadly never heard the varied and oft-gruesome - way our monarchs met their maker. Feautring original medical research, this history forms a rich record not just of how these people died, but how we though about and treated the human body, in life and in death.

About the Author

Suzie Edge

Suzie Edge trained as a molecular cell biologist before moving to clinical medicine, to spend more time talking to people, rather than just bugs in test tubes. She went on to work as a junior doctor in a variety of medical specialties including infectious diseases, haematology, and trauma and orthopaedic surgery. She recently completed an MLitt in Modern History to feed her fascination for the history of the human body and the history of medicine. 

Always on the lookout for gory historical details, Suzie loves telling stories of how we have treated our human bodies in life and in death. 

Suzie has a black belt and is a trainee instructor in the martial art of Sooyang Do. She lives in a wee cottage in the Highlands of Scotland with her husband, their two teenage daughters and their dog, Scout. 

Her first book, Mortal Monarchs, was published by Wildfire in September 2022.

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