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You’d be surprised at how many kings—from Elvis Presley to King George II—died “on the throne.”

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8. You sometimes describe yourself as having been “born too late” or “having an old soul.”

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You’re never too old to start reading Harry Potter (or read it all over again).

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Well, if you’re not going to get that gym membership (a perennial list marker), you might as well actually read those 10,000 books you always say you’re going to get around to. 

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She goes on to say that “when she [Pamela] became pregnant he took her to the north of Norway and drove for miles over bumpy roads with the inevitable result of a miscarriage.”   Unity (“always the odd one out,” says her sister), fell madly in love with Hitler and, when Britain declared war on Germany, she shot herself in the head with a pearl-handled revolver in a Munich park…