The men who would be king

The Spectator | October 14, 2000| | Copyright

Alan Sked

REBELS, PRETENDERS AND IMPOSTORS

by Clive Cheesman and Jonathan Williams

British Museum Press, L17.99, pp. 192

Before the age of newspapers and photography,

it was a lot easier for an ambitious individual to pass himself off to ignorant populations as a prince of the royal blood or even as a deceased king returned to life. Hence the crop of false Neros after the tatter's suicide in 68 AD or the three false Dimitris who claimed to be the (dead) son of Ivan the Terrible. Moreover,

a charismatic king who dies young or a prince who dies mysteriously in ...

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