Hacker News with Generative AI: Royal Family

MI5 files suggest queen not briefed on spy Blunt in royal household for 9 years (theguardian.com)
The late Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost 10 years that Anthony Blunt, a surveyor of the queen’s pictures and a member of the royal household, had confessed to being a Soviet double agent, previously secret security files suggest.
A murder that shook British India and toppled a king (bbc.co.uk)
It looked like an ordinary murder.
Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment (wikipedia.org)
Gustav III of Sweden's coffee experiment was a purported twin study ordered by the king to study the health effects of coffee.
Don't Take Advice from a Habsburg (thedial.world)
For two decades, Marie Antoinette’s mother gave birth almost annually. She had her first child in 1737 at age 20 and her 16th in 1756 at 39. The future queen of France, born Maria Antonia, was child number 15, and arrived the day after the calamitous 1755 Lisbon earthquake, whose tremors were felt across Europe. For her mother, the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa, these quakes of body and earth coincided with those of politics.
King John's Lost Treasure (historytoday.com)
How to Fold a Suit, According to King Charles's Former Suit Maker (nytimes.com)
The Queen's Doll's House (clairelevans.substack.com)
A Kingly Proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III (2023) (declassifieduk.org)