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By the time you became a monarch you had usually already survived to adulthood (child kings existed but were the exception). This biases the statistics consider
by umanwizard 9y ago
By the time you became a monarch you had usually already survived to adulthood (child kings existed but were the exception). This biases the statistics considerably.
FWIW: I’d have (probably) died from pneumonia at age 5 without modern medicine. In reality it was curable trivially.