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TIL of Jane Digby, an English aristocrat who had 4 husbands and many lovers, including King Ludwig of Bavaria and his son King Otto of Greece, a Bohemian nobleman, Austrian statesman and Prince, and a Greek general. She died in Syria, the wife of a Sheikh 20 years her junior

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