stackyFACTSWhy rule a country during the day when you can LARP as a mythical prince at night? The Bavarian king reversed his entire schedule so he could take aggressive, solitary carriage rides through the freezing snow at three in the morning while everyone else slept.
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Because hitting a divine prince was treason, courts hired a proxy child to get absolutely beaten whenever the prince misbehaved. Talk about a toxic internship.
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Annoyed that his valuable tennis balls kept rolling into an open sewer grate during matches, the Scottish king ordered the drain firmly sealed. Months later,…
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King George IV was absolutely notorious for his astronomical gluttony. He routinely started his mornings in bed with a hearty meal of pigeon pie, beef, and…
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Generations of relentless royal inbreeding produced a monarch whose face practically defied basic biology. The Spanish king had a lower jaw so severely…
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Extreme paranoia requires extreme staffing solutions. Because slipping a little toxic powder into a royal goblet was the preferred political coup of the era,…
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If you're going to commit high treason, make sure the king thinks you're hilarious. In 1671, Thomas Blood bludgeoned the Keeper of the Jewels, flattened the…
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