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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on
one hand. |
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. |
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. |
Sir Thomas Crapper, attributed to inventing the flush toilet,
was a nephew of Queen Elizabeth. |
Spain, or rather the part of it which was called Castile, once
had a reigning queen, who had been a nun. She was Doña
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. |
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.
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