Madmen on Royal Thrones

World history has seen plenty of unbalanced people in power. Nothing is more sad and more worrying than the experience of having the fate of an entire state in the hands of mentally unhealthy people. Basovskaya N. I. tells about such people, their lives, and the reasons for their rise to the throne in her new book. The book contains five “madmen.” Including Juana the Mad, who for many years drove around with the coffin of her dead husband Philip—periodically opening it—plus the blessed Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich.

Contents:

Introduction

Juana the Mad

Charles VI

Henry VI

Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich

Henry VIII