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FACTS ABOUT KINGS AND QUEENS

Posted by AMAZING FACTS at 10:47 AM

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.

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.

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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