The Bloody Queen of Madagascar
Noble Blood
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The Death of Radhama the First
After Radhama the first, nobles began to adopt a new Latin alphabet of the Malagas language. Missionaries thrived on the island, setting up schools and converting mostly lower-class Malagas people. Rana Valano ordered that every single one of her husband's family be killed. Because there was a superstition that forbade spilling of royal blood, she had every death done by strangulation.
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