The King’s Poisoner: The Secret Sister of Aurora
Sleeping Beauty was not the only child. She was the only survivor.
Documents found in a sealed French monastery reveal the existence of Isolde de Laurant, twin sister to Aurora. She was said to be “too clever, too curious.”
When Aurora fell into her fabled sleep, Isolde wasn’t cursed — she was accused. Historians now believe the “spinning wheel” was a metaphor for poison: a distillation device used to brew belladonna extract.
Isolde was trained as an herbalist, and the king’s advisors claimed she had “interfered with divine fate.”
She was locked away in an asylum where she documented her experiments, claiming she could communicate with her sleeping sister through dreams.
When the asylum burned in 1760, rescuers found walls covered in writing: “Wake her or I will.”
No body was ever found.
But days later, the nearby crypt where Aurora lay was found open — empty, and cold to the touch.
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