The BRUTAL execution of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury | people killed by Henry VIII

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HACKED TO DEATH by an incompetent axeman, this is the story of the brutal execution of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury who supposedly required 11 blows of the axe to finish her off. The daughter of George, Duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville, Margaret was one of the last Plantagenets still al