Strange Royal Deaths
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Kings and queens lived lives of power, wealth and splendour. But some met strange, violent and gruesome ends. Hear what happened to them in this British History Podcast.
What really happened to King Harthacnut, the young king who suddenly collapsed at a feast?
Hear how William the Conqueror faced one final indignity — even after he was dead.
How did William Rufus come to be lying dead in the New Forest?
And what on earth happened to Edward II in Berkeley Castle?
The stories become even stranger. There are murdered kings, mysterious deaths and royal bodies that refused to stay where they were put.
Richard II disappeared into captivity. Henry VI met a mysterious end in the Tower.
The Princes in the Tower vanished from history. And Richard III disappeared for more than 500 years.
Then come the Tudors — Henry VIII and Mary Queen of Scots — followed by some extraordinary Georgian stories involving a privy, a cricket ball and a very unusual royal death.
Hear how George V's final moments became entangled with the deadline for the morning newspapers.
How did Britain's kings and queens really die?
Listen to The Strange Stories of Royal Deaths in this British History Podcast
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