Royalty & Nobility
55 famous royalty & nobility and their final words
Royalty & Nobility 323 BC
Alexander the Great
“To the strongest.”
Fever (possibly typhoid, poisoning, or malaria) Age 32
Royalty & Nobility 1980
Alfred Hitchcock
“One never knows the ending. One has to die to know exactly what happens after death.”
Kidney failure Age 80
Royalty & Nobility 1536
Anne Boleyn
“O Lord God have pity on my soul.”
Execution by beheading Age 35
Royalty & Nobility March 453
Attila the Hun
“Unknown — he was found dead on his wedding night.”
Nosebleed (hemorrhage) or possibly assassination Age 47
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Auntie Fee
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility 1881
Benjamin Disraeli
“I had rather live but I am not afraid to die.”
Bronchitis Age 76
Royalty & Nobility 1986
Benny Goodman
“He died in his sleep at home.”
Heart failure Age 77
Royalty & Nobility 41 AD
Caligula
“I am still alive!”
Assassination (stabbed) Age 28
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Catherine Howard
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility 1796
Catherine the Great
“Unknown — she suffered a stroke and never regained consciousness.”
Stroke Age 67
Royalty & Nobility 814
Charlemagne
“Lord, into your hands I commend my spirit.”
Pleurisy Age 65
Royalty & Nobility 30 BC
Cleopatra
“Unknown — legend holds she allowed herself to be bitten by an asp.”
Suicide (possibly snake bite or poison) Age 39
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
David
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Diana
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Dianas
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility 1997
Dodi Fayed
“Go, go, go.”
Car crash Age 42
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Edward Vi
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
El Chapo
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
El Mencho
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility 1603
Elizabeth I
“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
Blood poisoning (septicemia) Age 69
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Elizabeth Ii
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Gaetan Dugas
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Gaëtan Dugas
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility 1916
Grigori Rasputin
“Unknown — accounts of his death are wildly contradictory.”
Assassination (poisoned, shot, beaten, drowned) Age 47
Royalty & Nobility 1547
Henry VIII
“All is lost! Monks! Monks! Monks!”
Possibly renal and hepatic failure Age 55
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
James Earl Ray
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Josephine Bonaparte
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility 1941
Kaiser Wilhelm II
“He died in exile in the Netherlands.”
Pulmonary embolism Age 82
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
King David
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility Fictional character
King Viserys
“I am not afraid of what comes next.”
Fictional narrative death
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Lady Diana
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Lady Jane Grey
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility 1715
Louis XIV
“Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?”
Gangrene Age 76
Royalty & Nobility 1793
Louis XVI
“I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge. I pardon those who have occasioned my death.”
Execution by guillotine Age 38
Royalty & Nobility 180 AD
Marcus Aurelius
“Go to the rising sun, for I am already setting.”
Plague — possibly smallpox Age 58
Royalty & Nobility 1793
Marie Antoinette
“Pardon me, sir, I did not do it on purpose.”
Guillotine execution Age 37
Royalty & Nobility 1587
Mary Queen of Scots
“Into Thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.”
Execution by beheading Age 44
Royalty & Nobility 1997
Mother Teresa
“Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.”
Heart failure Age 87
Royalty & Nobility 2011
Muammar Gaddafi
“Don't shoot! Don't shoot!”
Execution by rebel forces Age 69
Royalty & Nobility 1821
Napoleon Bonaparte
“France, armée, tête d'armée, Joséphine. (France, army, head of the army, Joséphine.)”
Stomach cancer (possibly arsenic poisoning) Age 51
Royalty & Nobility 1821
Napoleon Bonaparte
“France, army, head of the army, Joséphine.”
Stomach cancer Age 51
Royalty & Nobility 1873
Napoleon III
“Were you at Sedan?”
Complications from kidney stones surgery Age 64
Royalty & Nobility 68 AD
Nero
“Qualis artifex pereo! (What an artist dies in me!)”
Suicide (stabbed himself in the throat) Age 30
Royalty & Nobility 1997
Princess Diana
“My God, what's happened?”
Car accident Age 36
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Princess Diana Death
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Queen Elizabeth Ii
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility 2022
Queen Elizabeth II
“I think I know you.”
Old age Age 96
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Queen Elizabeths
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Queen Liliuokalani
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility 1901
Queen Victoria
“Bertie.”
Multiple strokes and progressive dementia Age 81
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Queens
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Reinhard Heydrich
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility 1918
Tsar Nicholas II
“What? What?”
Execution by firing squad Age 50
Royalty & Nobility Unknown
Verified
“I have lived my truth.”
Natural Causes
Royalty & Nobility December 1476
Vlad the Impaler
“His death circumstances are uncertain — likely killed in battle or assassinated.”
Killed in battle or assassinated Age 45