Which uncle of Britain’s Queen Victoria was suspected of murder?
Answer: Ernest Augustus I, King of Hanover, the eighth child of King George III. In May 1810, his valet Joseph Sellis died in suspicious circumstances in Ernest’s rooms at St James Palace, London. While the official verdict was suicide, it was strongly suspected to have been Ernest himself – he had been maintaining an affair with Sellis’ wife.
Source: The Interesting Bits by Justin Pollard; The Birth of the Modern by Paul Johnson
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