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The Iron King

by Maurice Druon · The Accursed Kings series

Fourteenth-century France under Philip the Fair: the Templars are destroyed, a curse is pronounced, and the throne begins a long unraveling. Druon writes medieval power politics as tragedy in slow motion—marriage as weapon, torture as statecraft, and scandal with dynastic consequences.

The Accursed Kings in reading order

• 1. The Iron King — Maurice Druon
• 2. The Strangled Queen — Maurice Druon
• 3. The Poisoned Crown — Maurice Druon
• 4. The Royal Succession — Maurice Druon
• 5. The She-Wolf — Maurice Druon
• 6. The Lily and The Lion — Maurice Druon
• 7. The King Without a Kingdom — Maurice Druon

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