“Pardon me sir, I did not do it on purpose.”
Queen of France during the revolution, spoken after stepping on the executioner’s foot as she approached the guillotine to be beheaded at the Place de la Concorde.
Marie Antoinette (1755 – 1793)
Category: Royalty
Cleopatra (69 – 30 BCE)
“Here you are, then.”
Queen of Ancient Egypt, these were her last words before letting a poisonous snake bite her. She was 39 years of age.