How did Hans Worrenberg, Europe’s most famous dwarf performer, go from dazzling English royalty to drowning in a wooden box in Rotterdam? Discover the astonishing life and tragic end of this 17th-century entertainer, whose fame couldn’t save him from a fatal twist of fate.

Jaqueline Foroni, born in Italy in 1779, had both male and female characteristics In 1802 her body was examined by a scientific committee.