26Ass milk bath
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, is said to have bathed in 'ass milk' to preserve the beauty and youth of her skin. Legend has it that no less than 700 asses were required to provide the quantity of milk necessary for her daily bath.
27. The first Queen to rule Egypt was named Hatshepsut. She ruled 18 centuries before Cleopatra.
28. Marie Antoinette's last words were, "Pardon me, sir. I meant not to do it". It was an apology to the executioner for accidentally stepping on his foot on her way to the guillotine.
29. French Queen Marie Antoinette had a fully functioning peasant village built on the grounds of Versailles. She loved strolling the village in simple shepherdess garb pretending to live a simple life milking cows or sheep, which were carefully maintained and cleaned by the servants.
30. Marie Antoinette syndrome designates the condition in which scalp hair suddenly turns white. The name alludes to the unhappy Queen Marie Antoinette of France (1755-1793), whose hair allegedly turned white the night before her last walk to the guillotine during the French Revolution. She was 38 years old when she died.
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31W.A. Mozart
When W.A. Mozart was 7, he was giving a concert in front of royalty in Vienna. When he slipped, Marie Antoinette helped him up and he immediately proposed to marry her.
32. Duckies ("duckys") was a medieval English slang term for a woman's breasts, used by (among others) Henry VIII in letters to Anne Boleyn (Queen of England).
33. Pianist Jan Ladislav Dussek was the court musician of Catherine the Great and Marie Antoinette, had an affair with a princess and was an acquaintance of Napoleon and Talleyrand.
34. Lady Jane Grey was executed simply for being related to Henry VIII and for being nominated Queen by her cousin. Even the executioner asked for her forgiveness before carrying out the beheading.
35. The Queen Elizabeth II never gave a press interview, went to an election or publicly expressed a personal opinion.
36Queen Elizabeth II's argument
Queen Elizabeth II was once accidentally filmed during an argument with Prince Philip throwing tennis shoes and a racquet at him. The Australian film crew, under mild encouragement destroyed the footage out of respect.
37. Queen Elizabeth II employs somebody to wear her shoes before her to ensure they are comfortable.
38. In preparation for a state visit by Nicolae Ceausescu (Romanian President), Elizabeth II ordered the guest rooms of Buckingham Palace to be stripped of valuables for fears that they'd be stolen. She later described the visit as the worst three days of her life.
39. There is a society in the UK called the "Royal Bastards", consisting of illegitimate descendants of British Royalty. As she has both legitimate and illegitimate ancestry, Queen Elizabeth II has been invited to join.
40. In 1956, French Prime Minister Guy Mollet proposed a union between the United Kingdom and France with Elizabeth II as head of state and a common citizenship.
41Michael Fagan
In 1982, a man named Michael Fagan managed to break into Buckingham Palace, ate some cheese, drank some wine, only to leave and come back another day to have a bedside chat with Queen Elizabeth II.
42. Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom, is also the Queen of Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
43. Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip started dating/courting when he was 18 and she was 13.
44. Queen Elizabeth has a Big Mouth Billy Bass that she keeps at the Royal Family summer home.
45. Queen Elizabeth II had two mentally disabled cousins named Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon who were institutionalized for 40+ years. Their family never visited them, never sent birthday or Christmas gifts or cards, provided false dates of death to the public before they died and did not attend the elder daughter's funeral.
46William "Billy" Windsor I
In the British Army, there was a Goat named William "Billy" Windsor I who was ranked Lance Corporal. Billy was once temporarily demoted for "lack of decorum" and "disobeying a direct order" at Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday parade.
47. Pharaoh Hatshepsut disguised herself as male, reigned longer than any other woman, and was one of the most successful pharaohs of Egypt.
48. The Byzantine Empress Theodora began her life as an actress of ill repute in the hippodrome and was even rumored to perform shows where geese would eat barley off her naked body in front of thousands of people.
49. Despite Napoleon divorcing Joséphine de Beauharnais so he could have an heir, his first wife Josephine is the ancestor of five of the current royal houses of Europe. Napoleon is the ancestor of none.
50. The Chevalier d'Éon, a French diplomat and spy, appeared publicly as male for 49 years but once infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by posing as a woman. In 1777, he began dressing publicly as a woman and claimed to be female.
RE: Fact# 22 – Cleopatra’s Inbreeded Ancestry:Nearly all members of the nobility and royal families from ancient to the early modern era were highly inbred.
What’s truly scary is that it makes you question how much of history was shaped by people who were so intellectually stunted due to generations of inbreeding.
The purpose of a dynasty is to maintain the alliances that keep the ruling elite in power. The aristocracy, senior ministers, and other members of society’s upper crust looked to the king to settle disputes, guard their interests, and coordinate security measures to keep out threats to their power and status (foreign invaders, in other words). In the event of the king’s untimely demise, a struggle for control would ensue, and some of the current elites may be disadvantaged in the new order since the new king might bear a grudge against them or have different demands and desires. So the ruling class strikes deals with the royal family. The king’s heir will continue his father’s ties because they are essential to the family’s financial and physical well-being. Loyalty is paramount in autocracies, whereas competence is merely a bonus.
Better decisions are made in meritocratic democracies than in autocratic ones. Consider the current status of authoritarian regimes, which are rife with problems like poverty, corruption, and incompetence. Unfortunately, democracies are significantly more complex systems that necessitate extensive bureaucracy and specialized knowledge to manage well. Compared to democracies, autocracies are much less complicated.
what do yoy mean, history WAS shaped by people who WERE intellectually stunted… I see no difference whatsoever
Just wanted to note that 75 & 87 are about the same person, the author has just used her Gailic name and the English version.
#95 is misleading, hemp was used to make fabric, ropes, and papers. While it is in the cannabis family, it was not commonly used in the same manner as other cannabis plants, most notably marijuana.
#43. They were introduced at that age, they did not start courting till years after
#99 The Queen (Princess Elizabeth then) got extra ration coupons from members of the public; they wanted her to have a dress befitting of a princess, and they could not afford to spend them all anyway, if there was any fabric to buy! They had to be returned because folk were allowed to give them to someone else!
#1-#100 : most sounded like they fighting to be known as the Worst of the Worse.Except the rare few, like the one intended to donates £10000 but because some Queen just donates £1000 he had to only give lesser than that as not to insult the Queen. It’s defines the attitude of some people’s of th
The list should be named The Worst of the Worse instead. As if they are fighting to be known as one.
And #4 shouldnt be in since this the only times it warms my heart reading the list. Applaud the act by the Ottoman ruler, but the Queen acts of arrogant, careless and hypocrisy reflects in some of her people’s attitude even today. Living the life feeling They r above the Rest privileged fantasy. While the truth is, their minions tries countless ways just to maintains the quo.
Get real, grown up and stop fantasizing