A Lonely Job at the Top

From the Times of London...

A researcher has looked back on the lives of more than 1,500 European kings and queens and found that more than 20 per cent died a violent death.

That is four times more likely than a soldier in a war zone and 200 times more likely than those living in Cuidad Juarez – the Mexican city with the highest murder rate in the world.

Professor Manuel Eisner, a criminologist at Cambridge University, found that the biggest cause of death was rivals taking the throne, followed by battles with neighbouring monarchs and revenge.

A few kings and queens were killed by random members of the public who had a grievance with authority.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8286288/Its-tough-at-the-top-how-being-a-monarch-is-dangerous.html