What Happened To King Edward VII's 7 Children Was Worse Than Death

At Sandringham House, a bedroom was locked and left exactly as it was. Clothes laid out. Soap by the basin. A Union Jack over the bed. The young man who slept there died at twenty-eight, six weeks before his wedding — and within eighteen months, his fiancée married his younger brother. One of his sisters became Queen of Norway. Another was never allowed to marry at all, and was still living as her mother's companion at fifty-seven. And there was a sixth child almost nobody counts, whose father laid him in the coffin himself. Six children. Six unequal endings. Start there.