Terrifying Details of Life in Royal Palaces That Will Stun You

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Versailles went from a golden palace to a yellow one. Visiting aristocrats used the entire area as a way to relieve themselves, with or without the King there. They covered the front lawn in their own excrement and even did so within the chapel. Certainly not as religious as we like to think they were...

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