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The mummified head of Charles XII, photographed at the time of his exhumation in 1917, and showing the exit wound–or was it?–left by the projectile that killed him during the siege of ...
Ever since Sweden's King Charles XII (Karl in Swedish) was killed in 1718 while leading an invasion of Norway, there has been a debate over who shot him. It is thought that he became unpopular because ...
(CBS/AP) Britain's Prince Charles made his first official visit to Sweden on Thursday, nearly 40 years after Carl XVI Gustaf became the country's king. The king's wife, Queen Silvia, said she was ...