INSANE THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT KINGS
Added on: 28th Jun 2016
WHEN GANDHI ONCE WENT TO MEET THE KING OF
ENGLAND WEARING ONLY A LOINCLOTH HE WAS
ASKED WHETHER HE FELT UNDERDRESSED. HE
REPLIED THAT THE KING WEARS ENOUGH
CLOTHES FOR THE BOTH OF THEM
WHEN FRENCH SOLDIER JEAN BERNADOTTE SHOWED
KINDNESS TO SEVERAL SWEDISH SOLDIERS, SWEDEN
DECIDED TO MAKE HIM KING. TO THIS DAY THE HOUSE
OF BERNADOTTE RULES IN SWEDEN
WHEN THE WEIBERTREU CASTLE IN GERMANY WAS
DEFEATED IN 1140, KING KONRAD III LET THE WOMEN
LEAVE THE CASTLE WITH WHATEVER THEY COULD
CARRY. THEY LEFT CARRYING THE MEN ON THEIR
BACKS. KING KONRAD III STAYED TRUE TO HIS
WORD AND LET THEM LIVE
MANY FRENCH AND BRITISH KINGS OFTEN HAD VERY
OPEN AFFAIRS. THE CHILDREN OF THESE AFFAIRS
WERE CALLED ROYAL BASTARDS AND OFTEN
RECEIVED MONEY AND LAND
WHEN KING OF FRANCE, JEAN II, WAS A PRISONER IN
ENGLAND, THE ENGLISH LET HIM RETURN TO
FRANCE IN ORDER TO COLLECT RANSOM IN EXCHANGE
FOR HOLDING HIS SON. ALTHOUGH HIS SON ESCAPED,
THE KING RETURNED TO ENGLAND CITING HIS HONOUR
KING MITHRIDATES VI OF GREECE TRIED TO POISON
HIMSELF BUT FAILED BECAUSE HE HAD DEVELOPED
IMMUNITY OVER THE COURSE OF HIS REIGN
KING GEORGE VI WAS SHOCKED WHEN HE VISITED
SOUTH AFRICA IN 1947 BECAUSE HE WAS INSTRUCTED
TO ONLY SHAKE HANDS WITH WHITE PEOPLE. HE EVEN
CALLED HIS BODYGUARDS THE "GESTAPO"
MARIA LETIZIA RAMOLINO IS KNOWN AS THE
"MOTHER OF MONARCHS". HER KIDS INCLUDED
NAPOLÉON (EMPEROR OF FRANCE), JOSEPH
(KING OF SPAIN), AND LOUIS (KING OF HOLLAND)
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