The Horrible Death of the Foolish King Who Trusted the Wrong People and Paid with Starvation

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This is the shocking true story of King Richard II of England, who inherited the throne at age 10 and died one of the most brutal deaths in royal history. Richard's reign began with promise but descended into tyranny, paranoia, and fatal political mistakes. His marriage to Anne of Bohemia brought him happiness and stability, but her death from plague in 1394 drove him to make increasingly dangerous decisions. His disastrous remarriage to a six-year-old French princess and his growing isolation from reality set the stage for his downfall. When Richard exiled his cousin Henry Bolingbroke and illegally seized his inheritance, he created a powerful enemy who would return to claim not just his lands, but the throne itself. Richard's fatal decision to leave England for Ireland gave Henry the perfect opportunity to strike. What followed was a carefully orchestrated political murder that shocked medieval Europe. Imprisoned and abandoned by those he trusted most, Richard II was slowly starved to death over months of deliberate torture—a cruel end that served as a warning to future generations about the deadly consequences of political betrayal. Based on documented historical records, this is the complete story of how a king's inability to distinguish friends from enemies led to one of the most horrific royal deaths ever recorded.