Until recently, I didn't know that King Ludwig II of Bavaria could also be added to the list. But according to a documentary, there is a popular (if not prevalent) urban legend, according to which "Mad" Ludwig did not actually die on the fateful night of June 13, 1886. That he actually managed to escape confinement at Schloss Berg by swimming to freedom, and that the body inside his coffin is actually a wax double!
Anyhow, bearing this in mind, I was wondering if there are other examples of royal coffins whose contents have been questioned -- suspected of being empty or containing dummies, or possibly of other people's corpses.
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