Queen Anne Boleyn was reported to have had six fingers? This was refuted, but it’s quite possible she
did have two nails on her right little finger.
Churchill and Hitler were both artists.
Margaret Thatcher, once a chemist, assisted in the creation
of soft serve ice cream.
It is normally thought that Henry VIII finished his
marriages as follows: Divorced, beheaded, survived. It is commonly believed that Catherine Parr
(his last wife) was the only queen to survive him. However, both Anne of Cleves and Catherine of
Aragon survived his royal malfeasance. Catherine
of Aragon was never divorced by the Catholic church nor was the marriage annulled by them. King Henry was excommunicated from the church
and pushed an annulment through after the reformation. He ordered that Catherine should have the
title of Dowager Duchess of Wales.
The queen owns the sturgeons, whales, and dolphins in the
waters around the UK.
George II died on the toilet and may have shared the same
fate as Edmund II who was rumored to have been stabbed to death by a Viking
hiding in his privy.
The queen is the only person in Britain who legally drove
without a license or number plate on her car.
Owain Glyndwr was the last native-born man to hold the title
of Prince of Wales.
Queen Victoria used chloroform as an anesthetic during
childbirth.
Shakespeare’s father made gloves for a living.
During Elizabeth I’s time, makeup containing lead was used
as an anti-aging cosmetic.
In 1952, the Great Smog encompassed London and killed
anywhere from 4,000 to 12,000 people. The
“Big Smoke” is still used in reference to London.
Wales has more castles than any other country in
Europe! With over 600 castles, you might
think the Welsh loved building them, but in truth, many were built by the
English to keep the Welsh under control.
Queen Elizabeth I was reputed to be a man! (Of course, a
woman couldn’t have been such a strong monarch!)
A folly (virtually unknown in the U.S.) is an expensive
ornamental structure with no practical purpose.
Queen Victoria was the first monarch whose likeness was pressed
on a postage stamp.
Edward VIII, the king who abdicated his throne for an
American divorcee, was a Nazi sympathizer.
Upon the Nazis winning the war, he would possibly have been replaced on
the British throne as its monarch. He
also encouraged an infamous picture in 1933 of Princess Elizabeth and her
family performing a Nazi salute!
Queen Boudica of the Iceni is rumored to be buried under
platform 9 at Kings Cross Station.
Shakespeare was a great propagandist for the Tudors. His Richard III had little bearing on the
real Richard III who was by all reports a handsome and well-liked ruler. There is a lot of controversy over Richard’s
involvement with the Princes in the Tower, but he certainly wasn’t freakish or
sporting a withered arm. He was,
however, judged to have had severe scoliosis rather than a hunched back. All this propaganda ensured that
the public viewed the Tudors as rightful heirs to the throne and the northern
kings as abhorrent.
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