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Love of tennis killed Scots king

As Britain's most famous tennis tournament gets under way, the BBC's Stuart Nicolson examines how the game had deadly consequences for a Scottish king.

A love of tennis proved fatal for Scotland's first king of the court almost 600 years ago....

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