After humiliating scandal, Shah Reza of Iran was kicked off the throne and exiled. Even his own wife refused to go with him.
When Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg’s husband died, she had his heart embalmed, and hung it in a golden casket above her daughter’s bed.
Though Imperial Consort Wenxiu infamously divorced the Emperor of China in 1931, their twisted love story had an even darker end.
From being kidnapped by his stepfather to enacting revenge on an entire family, the life of James V was a wild ride, right up until his dark end.
When Lettice Knollys married Queen Elizabeth’s rumored lover, the queen banished her from court and spent years destroying her reputation—yet in the end, Lettice still won their bitter feud.
Before there was a Roman Empire, Carthage ruled the world. A seafaring, wealthy, and opulent Phoenecian metropolis situated in modern Tunisia, its power and influence preceded it—but then the small Roman Republic began edging in on its territory. Thus began the so-called “Punic Wars.”
Throughout his life, Frederick, Prince of Wales made a lot of enemies, but the greatest enemy of all was his own father, King George II.
We’ve all heard of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”—but few know that her famous Creature was inspired by her own suffering.
The Warrens are famous for inspiring the blockbuster franchise The Conjuring—but they have more skeletons in their closet than any horror movie.
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