ROYAL DATES WITH DESTINY Author:Robert Easton 'Royal Dates with Destiny' is a collection of short vignettes describing the deaths of the world's aristocracy. It is presented in "calendar form, with at least one entry for each day of the year. Based on a number of scholarly sources per entry, these 400 or so "summaries of mortality" give an idiosyncratic and delightfully bizarre historical... more » overview of the surprising ways in which the world's most powerful have died. Each month contains at least a couple of famous royal deaths, yet more often than not the royal will be less well known, yet no less fascinating.« less