“Off with her head” may seem funny coming out of the mouth of Alice in Wonderland’s Queen of Hearts. But Margaret Pole—residing in the rather large shadow of King Henry VIII—lived in fear of hearing these very words. Pole spent a lifetime avoiding the executionary habits of a King gone mad. When it was finally her turn to meet the axe, it was a scene more gruesome than any modern-day horror film.
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