Got a book-or should say my wife purchased me a book on history's monarchs.
There was a great history of mental instability and insanity in the Spanish court.
There was a great history of mental instability and insanity in the Spanish court.
There is an old story about a guy who made his king a bet on a chess match. If he won, the king would put one kernel of wheat on the first square of the chessboard, two on the second, four on the third, doubling the grains each time. He won and the king started to pay the debt, when the king realized there wasn’t enough wheat in the world to pay the bet, he had the guy beheaded.
Ferdinand and Isabella had successfully kicked the Muslims out of Spain—in 1492. They were hard-core monarchs. Their descendants pissed away all that Spain achieved over the coming centuries.