INSANE THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT KINGS

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)