The Countess of Bathory - a Hungarian noblewoman thought to have murdered more than 600 women and young girls during the early 17th century - may in fact be the victim of a monumental “stitch-up ...

At 7am on 27 May 1541, Lady Margaret Pole – another victim of Henry VIII’s increasingly bloody regime – was led to her execution inside the Tower of London. But Margaret was no scheming minister like ...

After he died of a heart attack in 1992, the countess inherited the trophy property, plus a vacation home in the seaside town of Bognor Regis on the south coast of England. The four-story estate ...