Nothing focuses the mind more starkly than impending death. Its
inevitable spectre greets us all; from princes to paupers and
nobility to the needy. Prepare to mount the scaffold and share in
the final utterings of the condemned; join the stricken in their
death beds and witness unburdened tongues wag their closing, and
often remarkable confessions as deeply entrenched secrets are
finally unshackled in the wake of imminent death. Famous Last Words
collects a fascinating selection of destinies culminating in their
often flamboyant yet always captivating, final utterances before
shuffling off this mortal coil. Revealed inside are tales of
sangfroid bravery, astonishing ironies and overdue confessions
often betraying grave miscarriages of justice, throughout British
history. Revealed inside are tales of sangfroid bravery,
astonishing ironies and overdue confessions often betraying grave
miscarriages of justice throughout British history. Writer and poet
Sir Walter Raleigh had some typically forthright and urging words
for his executioner as the hesitant axeman displayed fear and
reluctance to perform his stately duties. Having felt the sharp
edge of the tool that would presently be rained down upon him,
rather than fearing his impending doom, Raleigh would offer goading
encouragement to his maker. Were the final words of convicted
murderer Ernest Brown a candid confession to another killing he had
committed deep in the Northumberland Moors some two years
previously which had lay unsolved? And what of Britain's first
actor to have had a knighthood bestowed upon him? Learn of the
staggering irony that saw his final words on stage prophetically
turn out to be his last in life...
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