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Lady Macbeth helped her husband carry out the assassination of their sovereign, King Duncan I [d. August 14, 1040]. She did so by helping in the planning and in the framing of the two royal guards. She was the one who suggested her giving the guards too much of drugged drinks. She was the one who kept Macbeth on track when he wavered. She was the one who told Macbeth that the murder would best be done with the King vulnerable, helpless and defenseless from having dined and gotten ready for bed. She was the one who planted the daggers back on the bodies of the guards, to frame them for the royal killing.

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