Part biography, part family history, The So-Called Mad Kings a new look at the less-often examined lives of the people surrounding Maleen of Adlkofen. Kira Lennox travelled to Germany and collects here evidence from the notes about Federica, the princess consort who could have had schizophrenia, and traces that family legacy back to the princes of Scharrau and forward into the legend of the “Mad Kings”, three brothers who died startling and violent deaths. She unravels truth from fiction and gives a fascinating new insight into the story of a great historical con and the family that pulled it off.