FEATURING ADDITIONAL MATERIAL ON HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II 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. Featuring original medical
research this history forms a rich record not just of how these people died but how we
thought about and treated the human body in life and in death.
