@plainoldme,
plainoldme wrote:
Frankly, I really don't care what his physical problem was.
Well there you go... When one is an absolutist monarch, and the whole kingdom has to do as you say; then what concern of the kingdom are your physical problems, except for the very real fact that people's minds are shackled to the their bodies, and as one goes, so goes the other, and that power absolute in the hands of an absolute madman is a dangerous thing indeed...