Which monarchy had this English peeress executed whose adult life is depicted in the 2014 historical novel The King's Curse?
The King's Curse The King's Curse is a 2014 historical novel by Philippa Gregory, part of her series "The Cousins' War". A direct sequel to "The White Princess", it follows the adult life of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, the daughter of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville.
Daisy de Melker Daisy Louisa C. De Melker (née Hancorn-Smith; 1 June 1886 – 30 December 1932) simply known as Daisy de Melker, was a trained nurse who poisoned two husbands with strychnine for their life insurance while living in Germiston in the central Transvaal (now Gauteng), and then poisoned her only son with arsenic for reasons which are still unclear. She is the second woman to have been hanged in South Africa.