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CELEBRITY TRIVIA
ROYALTY (KINGS)
(169 ENTRIES)
1)
During the 10th century AD, the Grand Vizier of Persia transported his entire
library where ever he went. His library consisted of 117,000 volumes and was
carried by camels who were trained to walk in alphabetical order.
2)
King Almotamid of Seville, Spain, once arranged for an entire hillside near
Cordoba to be planted with almond trees so that in the spring when the falling
petals turned the slopes white it would look like snow, something that his
wife Itimad had never seen.
3)
Peter the Great of Russia had an obsession with dwarfs. Once when two of his
favourite dwarfs decided to get married, Peter invited 72 more dwarfs from
all over the empire to attend the wedding feast in which small tables were
made available for the dwarfs and large for the normal sized guests.
When one of his dwarfs died, Peter staged a lavish funeral ceremony in which
the dwarf was placed in a tiny coffin drawn by miniature horses headed by
a short priest.
Peter also returned from a trip to France with a 7ft 6in giant called Nicholas
Bourgeois and married him to a woman with similar proportions in the hope
that they would produce huge children.
The plan failed but Peter continued to pay the couple an allowance of 600
roubles a year and included Bourgeois in many of his weird ceremonies which
included dressing the giant as baby and parading him on strings held by a
team of dwarfs.
4)
The Roman Emperor, Caligula, who ruled between 37AD and 41AD was quite a nasty
piece of work. After murdering Emperor Tiberius he immediately became Emperor
and declared himself a god. He used to wear a woman's gown, had a golden beard
and always carried a trident and a snake entwined rod with him at all times.
He passed a law that made it illegal for anyone to look at him when he passed
in the street and if anyone happened to glance his way he would have them
fed to the lions.
He had sexual relations with all three of his sisters and always argued that
this was the kind of things that living gods were supposed to do.
He also turned the senate into a whorehouse and forced all of the senators
wives to become "ladies for hire".
He also enjoyed torturing people with such acts as covering people with honey
and setting an army of red wasps loose on them and feeding criminals to the
lions because he decided that it would be cheaper than feeding them raw meat.
He made his favourite horse a consul and once decided that it would be a good
idea to invade England but when he went to Bologne to set sail for the invasion
he had to turn back when he realised that he had forgotten to tell his army
to turn up.
He was eventually hacked to death by his most devoted guard after he made
the man dress up in women's clothing and act as a prostitute.
5)
Atilla the Hun was only 4ft 6in tall.
6)
Edward VII of England had a habit of recording the height and weight of every
visitor to his Sandringham home.
7)
George I of England could not speak or write in English.
8)
Edward V of England was king for such a short time that nobody had a chance
to paint his portrait.
9)
The Aztec emperor, Montezuma, had a nephew named Cuitlahac, which means 'Plenty
of excrement'.
10)
George VI of England came bottom of the class at Naval college.
11)
Kublai Khan, the notorious Mongol Emperor, had 5000 resident astrologers working
for him.
12)
Chinese Emperor, Shih Huang Ti, who ruled during the 3rd century BC, built
a network of 270 palaces all connected by tunnels, and he was so terrified
of assassination that he slept in a different palace every night.
13)
Csar Nicholas II of Russia once considered building an electric fence around
his country.
14)
Every one of English King Henry VIII's wives were related to each other.
15)
King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette did not consummate their marriage
until seven years after their wedding.
16)
Emperor Leopold II of Belgium was too ill to attend his own wedding. So for
the 1853 marriage ceremony to Marie Henrietta, the Emperor's brother Archduke
Charles stood in for him.
17)
King Philip II Augustus of France decided halfway through his wedding with
Danish bride, Ingeborg, that he really didn't like her after all so immediately
after the ceremony took place he had her put away in a nunnery where she languished
for years.
18)
George I of England disliked his wife Dorothea so much that he had her imprisoned
for over 30 years. When he found out that she had finally died he celebrated
by going out to the theatre.
19)
George VI of England, was so drunk on the day of his wedding to Caroline of
Brunswick that he had to be carried up to the altar. On his wedding night
he slept in the fireplace.
20)
King Charles VI of England, was so convinced that he was made of glass that
he would never travel by coach in case the vibration shattered him into a
thousand pieces. He also had iron rods fitted to his clothing so that if he
ever fell over he would not shatter.
21)
King George III of England was so mad that he insisted on saying the word
'Peacock!' at the end of every sentence. Once when he opened parliament he
said, "My lords and Peacocks.......".
He was also in the habit of wearing a pillowcase on his head and believing
that he himself was dead, he wore black and announced that he was mourning
for "That good man, King George."
22)
The Roman Emperor Nero, who ruled between 54AD and 68AD, was a total nutcase!
Apart from having as many people as possible murdered he absolutely adored
having sexual intercourse with as many different animals as he could find
including large tortoises, ostriches and bears. He also loved watching women
being screwed by panthers and even had an incestuous relationship with his
own mother.
He would often take advantage of young boys and got a thrill out of watching
women fighting dwarves.
He held huge feasts and would insist on singing through the night and if any
guest was seen to be bored he would have them immediately removed from the
room to have their testicles chopped off. Sometimes during these feasts he
would serve human excrement to his guests and force them to lick the plates
clean.
His cruel streak was legendary. He would dress up as a tiger and attack his
victims with an axe and he would have people covered in animal skins and attacked
by starving wolves.
He once ordered the execution of man because he didn't like the way he walked
or because of the expression on their face. Later in life he became bored
with all the killing and instead enjoyed watching people kill themselves in
front of him. Sometimes he would dress up as a pleb and wander the streets
at night, stabbing any unlucky passerbys and then boiling them in hot oil.
After his wife died he found a male slave named Sportus and had him castrated
before marrying him and when he became overwhelmed by the huge task of turning
Rome into a dream city, he sent out bands of arsonists to burn everything
in sight, playing a fiddle as they set all the buildings alight.
Eventually the Army got fed up with him so he committed suicide by placing
a sword against his own throat and having someone push him onto it.
23)
King George III of England was riding in his coach through Windsor Great Park
when he suddenly ordered his driver to stop. The King then jumped out of the
coach walked over to an oak tree, shook hands with one it's branches and talked
to it for several minutes. The King thought that he had been talking to the
King of Prussia.
24)
King Amanullah of Afghanistan once stayed at London's Ritz hotel and became
so fascinated by the English traditions that when he returned home he tried
to make the wearing of bowler hats compulsory in his country.
25)
King Otto of Bavaria thought that the only way that he could preserve his
own sanity was to shoot a peasant a day. He would take potshots at the workers
in the Royal Gardens. When his aim began to improve it was deemed prudent
to load the king's pistol with blanks and for the peasants to play dead.
26)
Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia once used to eat the pages out of the bible,
believing that they would cure him of all illnesses.
In 1890 he was so impressed with stories of the new 'electric chair' from
America that he ordered three of them, even though Abyssinia didn't have electric.
Eventually he ended up throwing two away and keeping the third one as his
throne.
27)
King Ferdinand II, of Sicily was such a vain man that he would only allow
the country to have it's own postage stamps on the condition that his portrait
on the stamp was not tarnished by an ugly franking mark.
28)
Csar Paul I banished any soldiers to Siberia if they were found to be marching
out of step.
29)
King Pepi II of Egypt always kept a supply of naked slaves that had been covered
in honey to deter unwanted flys.
30)
King Louis XIV of France hated washing so much that he only ever took three
baths in his entire adult life. However he absolutely adored bed and owned
413 of them.
31)
18th century King Henry Cristophe of Northen Haiti once ordered his guards
to prove their loyalty to him by marching over a 200ft high cliff. Those who
obeyed plunged to their deaths and those who refused were executed.
32)
Czar Peter the Great of Russia once had the head of his wife's lover chopped
off and placed in a jar of alcohol.
His wife, Catherine was then forced to have the jar placed on her bedside
table no matter where she went as a reminder of her adultry.
33)
17th century King Murad IV of Turkey ordered that anyone caught smoking would
be executed on the spot and their bodies be left to rot where they were slain.
He also had a party of female picnickers drowned because they were making
too much noise.
34)
King Louis XV of France had a habit of always sleeping with teenage girls.
His excuse for this was that it reduced his chances of catching syphillis.
35)
King Menephta of Egypt once took home as a souvenir the penis's of 1300 libyan
soldiers killed in a battle that he won.
36)
King Gustav I of Sweden once ordered his goldsmith to be hacked to death because
the man had the nerve to take the day off without asking.
37)
Henry VIII of England employed a groom whose sole job was to wipe his fat
arse!
38)
Emperor Shih Hu of China would often select a girl from his vast harem, have
her beheaded and then have the body served as the main course at dinner.
39)
George IV of England used to clip off a tiny lock of hair from every woman
that he slept with and keep them in tiny individual envelopes, each bearing
the woman's name.
After he died over 7,000 of these envelopes were found in his bedroom.
40)
The Roman Emperor Domitian who ruled between 81AD and 96AD was at first a
quite decent man compared to his predecessors.
Unfortunately in his later years he became a proper TWAT!
He began to think of himself as a god and inisisted on being addressed as
"The ruler of heaven and earth" before having gold statues of himself
sent to all corners of the empire.
He had quite a nasty streak running through him and would regularly walk the
streets of Rome with his best friend, a dwarf with a mishapen head dressed
in scarlet.
He loved to torture men, his favourite method being to hold a burning torch
under a man's testicles before cutting off the penis and watching the poor
wretch bleed to death.
Dinner times were quite dangerous in his house. He would coax dinner guests
into an argument and then have them executed. He also amused himself by asking
his guests what method of death they would most fear and then went ahead and
killed them in precisely the way they had dreaded.
Domitian enjoyed sex with women, men and animals but usually liked to screw
dead bodies.
He was finally murdered by one of his daughters servants after he was caught
having sex with the dead body of his mother.
41)
Genghis Khan the leader of the Mongol tribes was notorious for his acts of
barbarism, but he did sometimes have a sensitive side to his nature.
He once ordered an enemy to be executed but when he realised that the man
was an old boyhood friend he cancelled the execution and instead had the man
rolled in a carpet and kicked to death.
42)
King Louis XIV of France ordered that only the King and Queen were allowed
to sit in chairs with arms.
43)
King Abbad el Motaddid King of the Moors in Spain used the skulls of his dead
enemies as flowerpots.
44)
King Vlad Dracul nicknamed Vlad the Impaler whom Dracula was based on would
drink his victim's blood, force wives to eat the flesh of their dead husbands
and force parents to eat their own children.
Between 1456 and 1476 he had 20,000 of his enemies impaled on stakes.
45)
King John of England employed a servant as a Royal head holder so that it
would counter seasickness. Whenever the King took a voyage out to sea his
servant, Soloman Attefeld, would hold the Royal head steady. For his devotion
to the King Soloman was rewarded with huge areas of land.
46)
Sultan Mahomet III of Turkey had every one of his 19 brothers murdered so
that he would not have any competition for the throne.
47)
King Alfonso XIII of Spain was so tone death that he employed servants to
tell him to stand up when the National Anthem was being played.
48)
Sultan Mahomet IV of Turkey employed a Royal scribe named Abdi in 1648 so
that he could keep a permanent diary of his reign.
At the end of one particularly uneventful day, Mahomet discovered that the
diary entry for that day was left blank, so he picked up a spear and had Abdi
impaled on it.
King Mahomet then said, "Now you have something to write about!"
49)
King Edward VI of England was a very unruly child at school, but, being a
royal, teachers were not allowed to cane him. Whenever Edward was to be punished,
another boy, Barnaby Fitzpatrick, stepped forward to be caned in his place,
Fitzpatrick taking the beating while the King looked on.
50)
Henry IV always had his hair cropped closely because it was infested with
head lice.
51)
Ivan The Terrible of Russia was so pleased with the construction of St. Basil
Church that he ordered the two architects who built it to be blinded so that
they would not make anything better.
52)
Ivan The Terrible once fell out with the Archbishop of Novgorod, so he ordered
that the cleric be sewn into a bearskin and hunted down by a pack of hounds.
53)
Csar Peter III of Russia wasn't crowned until 34 years after his death. His
coffin had to be opened so that the crown could be placed on his head.
54)
When the body of King George V of England was being carried through the streets
of London his crown fell from the top of his coffin and landed in the gutter.
Onlookers claimed that it was a bad omen and although the crown was repaired
George's successor, Edward VIII, never got to wear it.
55)
The Roman Emperor Tiberius who ruled between 14AD and 37AD had a few nasty
habits. He suffered terribly from flatulance and had a very bad temper. He
was once so pissed off at one of his wives that he had her put into the bathroom
with the heat turned up to full where she was steamed to death.
Anyone who disobeyed him in the slightest way would have their ears cut off,
the cut off bits being fed to his pet lions.
He later left Rome and took up residence on the island of Capri where he lived
as a sexual deviant indulging in all manner of sexual adventures.
He was very fond of having sex with goats and donkeys and also even had his
wicked way with a camel. He also liked to watch women having sexual intercourse
with zebras and he actually trained his pet lion to playfully nibble on his
penis!
He was later suffocated to death by the future Emperor Caligula at the age
of 78.
56)
George II of England used to stand outside his mistress's bedroom at precisely
one minute to nine every night and at exactly 9 o'clock he would enter the
room, pull down his breeches and have sex without even removing his hat.
57)
The English King Edward VII was once told by a palm reader that the number
9 and 6 would guide his life. His names Albert and Edward both had six letters,
he was born on the ninth day of the month. He married in 1863 (when split
this makes 9 & 9) to his bride Alexandra whose name has nine letters as
did that of her father Christian IX.
Edward's coronation took place on 9th August and he reigned for nine years
before eventually dying at the grand old age of 69!
58)
George V of England deliberately kept the hundreds of clocks at Sandringham
30 minutes fast so that he would never be late for an appointment.
59)
Roman Emperor Augustus set a height limit of 80 feet on tower blocks in the
city during the 1st century AD.
60)
The Sultan of Brunei's palace has 1,788 rooms and 257 toilets. The underground
garage accommodates the Sultan's 150 plus cars.
61)
King Edward VII of England owned a golf bag made from an elephant's penis.
It had been a gift from an Indian Maharajah.
62)
King James VI of Scotland made golf illegal in 1457 because his subjects were
neglecting their archery practice in order to play the game.
63)
During English King George III's mental illness all theatre productions of
King Lear were banned in the UK between 1788 and 1820.
64)
When William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066 and became King english
wasn't spoken again at court until the 14th century.
65)
King Francis I of France was the first person to buy Leonardo Da Vinci's painting
"The Mona Lisa" which he hung up in his bathroom.
66)
In 1602 the Emperor of Japan ordered that all cats be released from their
leads so that they could kill vermin that was threatening a silk crop. At
that time cats were so precious that they were all kept on a lead.
67)
English King William the Conqueror once ordered that any hunting dogs which
did not belong to him had to have three toes amputated to slow them down while
trying to catch game.
68)
King Charles I and Mary Queen of Scots were both accompanied to their executions
by their dogs.
69)
King Frederick the Great used to have sex with his pet whippet bitches.
70)
British King George IV's wife Caroline of Brunswick used to ride around with
a pumpkin on her head to keep cool.
71)
15th century German Emperor Wenceslas was once so angry with his chef for
cooking him a below par meal that he ordered him to be taken away and roasted
alive on a spit.
72)
The Emperor Varius Avitus Antoninus who ruled between 218AD and 222AD was
perhaps the most horrible head of state that ever lived.
Whenever he entered the city of Rome he was welcomed by millions of flower
petals being thrown down to him from balconies and would insist on the priests
greeting him with golden bowls filled to the brim with the intestines of recently
sacrificed children.
It was rumoured that he had a very small penis, which some said resembled
a pickled sprout, which is probably why he had an obsession with huge dicks.
He would appoint everyday working class people as ministers of state simply
because of the huge size of their sexual organs! He often paraded men with
small penis's through the streets of Rome totally naked and then had them
publicly executed.
He would do some extremely weird things as well. He could often be found dressing
up as woman and plying his trade as a prostitute. He would also hold lavish
feasts, forcing his guests to wrestle with lions and eat live parrots. He
would also throw dozens of live snakes at his guests and sit back and enjoy
the scene as they were killed by the snake bites or trampled to death by the
crowd trying to get out of the exit.
He was also very partial to tying his enemies to a wall and stabbing them
with a red hot poker until they screamed for mercy. He would then peel their
skin off their bodies and dip them in a vat of salt!
One of his favourite amusements was to send his servants on impossible missions.
He once ordered a servant to go out and find a thousand pound's weight of
cobwebs. When the servant returned later, his mission a failure, he was thrown
into a cage and eaten alive by hundreds of starving rats.
Eventually the people of Rome and his own soldiers got totally fed up with
him. He died a horrible death by having molten gold poured down his throat
before being dragged through the streets and then thrown into a sewer to die!
73)
Roman Emperor Constantine the Great banned sausages in Rome because of their
link to pagan festivities.
74)
French King Louis XVI loved chocolate so much that he employed a special courtier
whose sole job was to keep the King suppled with chocolate.
75)
English King Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn had a nasty habit of vomiting between
courses during feasts. She actually employed a lady-in-waiting whose sole
job was to hold up a sheet whenever the Queen started turning green.
76)
British King James I's tongue was so big that whenever he used to eat he would
slobber his food all over the table.
77)
French King Charlemange ordered that two mule loads of Roquefort should be
sent to his palace every Christmas.
78)
During the 12th century French King Philippe Auguste was once adored so much
by Blanche of Navarre that she sent him 200 cheeses every year.
79)
English King Edward VII once took 7,000 bottles of wine with him when he visited
Egypt on a hunting trip.
80)
During the 18th century Swedish King Gustav III was so convinced that coffee
was a poison that he ordered a criminal to drink himself to death. The condemned
man eventually died of old age.
81)
King Frederick the Great used to drink his coffee made with champagne rather
than hot water.
82)
King Louis XVIII's court physician was so terrified of draughts that he would
never allow anyone to open windows while he was in the room. He always travelled
everywhere wrapped in blankets and put a clove of garlic in each ear and nostril.
83)
English King James I was actually the first passenger to ride in a submarine.
84)
The Maharajah of Nabha once owned a Rolls Royce car which had been customised
into the shape of a swan.
85)
King Richard II, of England, was the man who was responsible for making pub
signs compulsory. As most of the population of England at the time were illiterate,
the signs helped people know where they were going.
In England there are around 22,000 different pub names, the most popular being
"The Red Lion", "The Royal Oak" and "The Crown."
86)
During the 7th century Emperor Yang (605AD to 617AD) of China spent an immense
fortune on pornographic murals covering his palace walls, sex toys and even
a vibrating bed for "debauching virgins".
He insisted that the population follow his example but civil unrest spread
thoughout the country as more and more people became outraged by his perverted
behaviour.
Eventually a group of rebels stormed his palace and butchered him.
87)
Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France during the early 19th century, would
often send a messenger to his wife Josephine after winning a battle telling
her "Not to wash her lady's area" until he had returned.
Josephine's odour and taste would drive both of them wild, especially when
she hadn't washed for many weeks.
This gave birth to the phrase, "The sweet smell of success!"
88)
King Louis XIX was the king of France from breakfast until teatime on 2nd
August 1830, after which point he abdicated.
89)
William the Conquerer was so strong that he could jump straight onto his horse
wearing a full suit of armour.
90)
The Roman Emperor Claudius who ruled between 41AD and 54AD was a bit of a
bastard. Throughout is life he had a tendancy to dribble and stutter but it
was during his later years that his cruel streak came out.
He had a habit of executing people for very minor offences and loved having
sex with underage girls. He even married a 14 year old girl but then later
had her killed.
He also adored having sex with baboons of both genders.
91)
King Henry III of France often appeared in public with a basket full of small
dogs hanging from his neck.
92)
The Roman Emperor Vitellius was about the greediest son of a bitch who ever
lived. During his reign his nickname was "The Glutton".
His favourite dish was named "Minerva's shield" and was laid out
on a silver platter the size of a large room. The dish consisted of huge amounts
of the most rare delicacies that could be found in the empire like pike livers,
peacock and pheasant brains, thrushes that had been stuffed, flamingo tongues
and fried stork.
He also had a cruel streak and enjoyed saving condemned men from being executed
so that he could have them murdered in front of him. He also starved his mother
to death!
He died a suitable death. He choked on a crow's beak!
93)
Sultan Mustapha III of Turkey fathered 582 children, every one of them being
boys.
94)
The Roman Emperor Commodus who ruled between 180AD and 192AD was a
bit of a shit. This is the Emperor played by Joachim Phoenix in the film "Gladiator"starring
Russell Crowe.
In real life he was a totally deranged egomaniac and insisted that the name
of Rome be changed to Commodania.
He led such a hugely extravagant life that he virtually made the city of Rome
bankrupt.
His main aim in life was to be totally drunk as often as possible and would
regularly dress up as Hercules and club people to death!
He also loved dressing crippled people up as snakes and shooting poisoned
arrows at them and was a huge fan of ostrich baiting!
In the film "Gladiator" he was shown being killed in a gladiatorial
fight in the Collisseum. In real life his mistress, a prostitute, poisoned
him but when he was taking too long to die she called in his wrestling partner
who finally strangled him to death.
95)
British King George II sold tickets to his subjects so that they could watch
him and his family eating Sunday dinner.
96)
During the coronation of a new monarch, the seal of the predecessor is damaged
with a hammer so that it can never be used again.
97)
King Boris of Bulgaria would constantly quarrel with his brother in public
over who should be allowed to drive the train they were travelling on. Both
brothers were railway enthusiasts.
98)
King George VI of England enjoyed sewing so much that he made a dozen embroidered
chair covers.
99)
Frederick the Great of Prussia used to have his coffee mixed with champagne.
100)
Norwegian King Olav and his Viking Sailing fleet once tried invading London
and actually hitched his ships to an early London bridge and managed to pull
it down.
It is thought that the nursery rhyme 'London bridge is falling down' is based
on this incident.
101)
The Coronation chair which sits in Westminster Abbey, London was originally
made for King Edward I.
102)
King Henry VIII actually invented the inch measurement and defined it as the
length covered by three barley corns placed in a row.
103)
Good King Wenceslas was actually a real king of Czechoslovakia.
104)
English King Henry VIII used to give his ladies in waiting an allowance of
two loaves of bread, a joint of beef and a gallon of ale each day just for
breakfast alone!
105)
King James II of England knighted the doctor who delivered his baby boy.
106)
King William I of England made it law that dogs that could fit through a gap
7 inches by 5 inches could only roam the Royal forests.
Any dogs bigger than this would be killed on sight. This was because of the
threat they caused to deer.
107)
King James I of England ordered that all young girls at his court had to be
always bare breasted as a sign of their virginity.
108)
William the Conqueror's son, William Rufus, was famous for having women wrestlers
at his court.
109)
King James I of England was the very first passenger in a submarine.
110)
King Edward III of England was once declared bankrupt.
111)
Emperor Napoleon of France suffered with constipation.
112)
King James I of England grew marijuana.
113)
King Henry VI of France used the Grande Gallerie of the Louvre for miniature
fox hunting during wet days.
He had trees, grass and rocks brought in so that he could make it more realistic.
114)
English King Henry VIII had every one of his palace's floors covered in rushes
to disguise the dirt.
115)
The Queen of King Edward III of England once pawned her royal crown in Germany
and it had to be redeemed by the state at a cost of 30,000 packs of wool.
116)
King Philip I of Spain was the only foreign monarch to appear on an English
coin. He was on the coin with his wife Mary I.
117)
King John of England was the first monarch to own a dressing gown and he used
to take just two baths a month.
118)
In just one year, 1536, King Henry VIII of England buried his first wife after
she died, executed his second wife Anne Boleyn and married his third wife
Jane Seymour.
119)
King Alaric of the Goths, who beseiged Rome in 408 AD included in his ransom
demands 1,400 kilograms of pepper.
120)
The wife of King William IV of England gave her name to the Australian city
of Adelaide.
121)
King Mongut of Siam had a total of 9,000 wives and concubines.
122)
King James I of England was so terrified of being assassinated that he always
wore a thick duvet style coat wherever he went.
123)
Alexander the Great once named an Indian town 'Bucephala' after his favourite
horse Bucephalus' which would kneel for him so that he could mount it in his
full armour.
124)
King George V of England was a world renowned stamp collector.
125)
Edward IV of England once outlawed the game of cricket.
126)
When English King Henry I was marrying Queen Adelaide, the ceremony was delayed
because of a bitter row.
King Henry insisted on wearing his crown throughout the ceremony which the
priest objected to.
127)
When the King of Siam wanted one of his relatives killed he always remembered
the traditional belief that Royal blood could never be spilt on the ground.
To get over this he ordered that the unfortunate victim be pounded to death
in a huge mortar and pestle, the blood being contained in the vessel and not
a drop touching the earth.
128)
King Ahmed Zogu I of Albania had a 240 cigarette a day habit.
129)
King George II of England suffered terribly from piles.
130)
Emperor Napoleon of France suffered so badly from piles during the Battle
of Waterloo that he could not mount his horse to survey his troops. This may
well have contributed to his defeat in this famous battle.
131)
Pericles, the ruler of fifth century Athens, hated his forehead so much that
he would always wear a helmet whenever his portrait was painted.
132)
Emperor Napoleon of France once bought his lover Josephine a dress made entirely
from rose petals.
133)
King George IV of England wrote so many love letters to Mrs. Fitzherbert that
after he died it took two days to burn them all.
134)
King Farouk I, the very last king of Egypt was an extremely wealthy man.
Amazingly he was also a petty thief!
135)
George IV of England was so poor and in debt before he became King that when
his stagecoach was held up by highwaymen they got away with what amounted
to today's terms as only 50 cents!
136)
King Carol of Romania personally selected the very first Romanian World Cup
soccer team.
137)
Peter the Great of Russia once put a tax on men's beards. To get around this
men would wear false beards instead!
138)
The phrase "Time immemorial" officially covers the period before
the reign of King Richard I of England.
139)
King Edward VII of England once appeared for a single performance of "Fedora"
on stage opposite legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt.
140)
The King of Tonga was once required to deflower all the virgins on the entire
island and he was still performing his duties eight times a week when he was
80 years old!
141)
When King Farouk abdicated from the throne of Egypt he went to stay on the
island of Capri with English actress Gracie Fields.
142)
Ghengis Khan conquered more territory during his lifetime than any other leader
in the history of the world.
143)
When Henry VI of England was only three years old he opened Parliament. It
was reported that he cried throughout the whole ceremony.
144)
King Henry VIII of England used to wear skirts.
145)
The Roman Emperor Caligula once had a huge bed made that could accommodate
himself, his sister, his wife, 12 slaves and of course his horse!
146)
Viking king Eric the Red was probably one of the first men to promote tourism
when he discovered a new country and christened it Greenland. Sounding like
such a pleasant place to emigrate to instead of the ice covered features that
were really there, helped the Vikings colonise this drab place.
147)
During the reign of King George III all performances of Shakespeare's play
'King Lear' were banned for 32 years because of the King's obvious insanity.
148)
King George I of England had his wife imprisoned in Germany for over 30 years
because she had the nerve to try and divorce him for adultery.
149)
King James I of England made it law that everyone should be buried in a wool
shroud after they had died. This was because he wanted to promote the wool
trade.
150)
King Rudolf III of Burgundy (993ad to 1032ad) was known as "The Sluggard".
151)
King Malcolm IV of Scotland (1153 to 1165) was known as "The Maiden".
152)
King Louis VI of France (1367 to 1383) was known as "The Fat".
153)
King Ferdinand I of Portugal (1367 to 1383) was known as "The Fickle".
154)
King Charles VI of France (1380 to 1422) was known as "The Mad".
155)
King Ivan IV of Russia (1547 to 1584) was known as "The Terrible".
156)
King Louis X of France (1314 to 1316) was known as "The Stubborn".
157)
King Charles II of Navarre (1349 to 1387) was known as "The Bad".
158)
King Henry IV of Castile (1454 to 1474) was known as "The Impotent".
159)
King Ethelred II of England (978ad to 1016ad) was known as "The Unready".
160)
King Louis XIII of France (1610 to 1643) was known as the "The Just".
161)
King William II of Sicily (1166 to 1189) was known as "The Good".
162)
King Philip of Castile (1506) was known as "The Handsome" and his
wife Joan was known as "The Mad".
163)
King Charles VII of France (1422 to 1461) was known as "The Victorious".
164)
King Henry II of Germany (1014 to 1024) was known as "The Saint".
165)
King Richard I of England (1189 to 1199) was known as "The Lionheart".
166)
King Philip IV of France (1285 to 1314) was known as "The Fair".
167)
King Ferdinand I of Castile (1035 to 1065) was known as "The Great".
168)
King Charles V of France (1364 to 1380) was known as "The Wise".
169)
King Louis XV of France (1715 to 1774) was known as "The Well-Beloved".