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Agrippina: Rome's Most Powerful Empress?

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

CHAPTER

The King Is Dead

Claudius checks out and at this point agapener is completely his equal really in authority she doesn't have any of the like official political power but she closes down the palace. She brings everybody who needs to be brought in in and has them swear to Nero before she tells anybody outside of the palace that Claudius is dead. That sounds very skilled but she clearly didn't factor into a fatty greedy gut husband of gorgeous all night did she? Yeah three points of wine was not factored into it but so whatever happens Claudius checks out. The first time that anybody hears about Claudius dying is when Nero enters the Praetorian camp which is nearby and they have already been primed

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