CRAZY THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT KINGS

AFTER KING LOUIS XIV WAS OFFERED BIOLOGICAL

WEAPONS BY A CHEMIST, HE REJECTED THEM AND

PAID THE CHEMIST TO NEVER SELL THEM

TO ANYONE ELSE

AT 16, KING HENRY V WAS HIT BY AN ARROW IN THE

FACE DURING A BATTLE. HE SAID HE WOULD

"RATHER CONTINUE FIGHTING THAN STAIN

HIS REPUTATION"

AKIHITO, THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN IS THE ONLY

REMAINING MONARCH ON EARTH WITH THE TITLE

OF "EMPEROR"

WHEN NAPOLEON III INVITED THE KING OF SIAM

TO DINNER, HE ATE WITH GOLD CUTLERY WHILE

THE KING OF SIAM ATE WITH ALUMINIUM CUTLERY.

THIS WAS NO OFFENSE THOUGH. BACK THEN

ALUMINIUM WAS WORTH SIGNIFICANTLY MORE

THAN GOLD

POLAND WAS ONCE RULED BY A KING NICKNAMED

"THE STRONG" (AUGUSTUS II) BECAUSE HE COULD

BREAK HORSESHOES WITH HIS BARE HANDS AND

HIS FAVOURITE SPORT WAS FOX TOSSING,

WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE

UNLIKE MOST OTHER WRITING SYSTEMS, THE

KOREAN SCRIPT WAS THE DELIBERATE INVENTION

OF A SINGLE MONARCH, KING SEJONG IN 1443

THE DOCTOR TO KING GEORGE V GAVE HIM A

LETHAL DOSE OF MORPHINE SO THAT HIS DEATH

COULD BE ANNOUNCED IN THE PRESTIGIOUS

MORNING PAPERS RATHER THAN THE LESS

REPUTABLE EVENING JOURNALS

SINCE THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE IS THE CO-PRINCE

OF ANDORRA, THIS MAKES ANDORRA THE ONLY

NATION ON EARTH WITH A DEMOCRATICALLY

ELECTED MONARCH

KING DARIOUS III OF PERSIA OFFERED ALEXANDER

THE GREAT THE EQUIVALENT OF $1 BILLION USD

TO SURRENDER. ALEXANDER TURNED IT DOWN AND

PROCEEDED TO PLOUGH THROUGH PERSIA