King George: The Sequel
The movie 'The Madness of King George' was originally released in
England under the title of 'The Madness of King George III'. The 'III'
was dropped for its American release because it was believed that the
American moviegoer would believe it to be a sequel, and not go see it
because they had never seen The Madness of King George I and II yet.
Vas ist Das Your Highness?
King George I of England could not speak English. He was born and raised
in Germany and never learned to speak English even though he was King
from 1714 to 1727. He left the running of the country to his ministers
thereby creating the first government cabinet.
NYC
Queen Anne had a transvestite cousin, Lord Cornbury, whom she assigned
to be governor of New York and New Jersey. The colonists were not
amused.
On yer way, love...
You would think that as the ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland, and the defender of the faith, Queen Elizabeth II
could go anywhere in her country she darn well pleases. However, she is
not permitted to set foot in the House of Commons. It is reserved for
commoners.
Fingers
Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.
Poker, anyone?
In the Forteenth century, King Edward II reigned in England and was
deposed, to be succeeded by his son, Edward III. The King was imprisoned
in Berkeley Castle and instructions were that no one should harm him.
When the decision was made to murder him, no mark was to be left on the
body. A deer horn was inserted into his rectum and a red hot poker was
placed inside that. His ghostly screams are said to be still heard in
the castle.
A royal wager
Sir Walter Raliegh financed his trip to America to cultivate tobacco by
betting Queen Elizabeth I that he could weigh the weight of smoke, which
he did by placing two identical cigars on opposite sides of a scale,
lighting one and making sure no ashes fell. The difference in the weight
after the cigar was done was the weight of smoke and Raliegh was on his
way to America.
The royal wee
Sir Thomas Crapper, attributed to inventing the flush toilet, was a
nephew of Queen Elizabeth.
The Queen of Castille
Spain, or rather the part of it which was called Castile, once had a
reigning queen, who had been a nun. She was Doņa Urraca of the house of
Navarre who reigned from 1109 - 1126, daughter of Alfonso the VI of Leon
and Castile. Later on she married and had a son who took the throne,
when she died.
Spitting Image
The French king Louis the XIV., also known as the Sun King, was with
almost certainty not the son of Louis the XIII., but the son of the
Danish nobleman Josiah Rantzau, who served in France as a general and
marechal of France. Rantzau was very popular with the ladies on account
of his great succes on the battlefields. It seems, that he was also a
favorite of the French queen; and it is told, that he had to leave
France when the boy Louis grew up, because the boy was the spitting
image of Rantzau. |
