This is the first episdode in the podcast World of Swedish History, where historians speak about Swedish history in English. Axel von Fersen was born in 1755 and as a young man he became the lover of the French queen Marie Antoinette and a close ally to George Washington. in 1810 he was lynched in the streets of Stockholm after he had been accused of the death of a danish prince who was supposed to be the crown prince of Sweden. Just recently a new eye witness report surfaced about the killing of von Fersen. Stockholm historian Mats Hayen tells the story.