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40 Regal Bits of Trivia About Past and Present Royal Dynasties

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40 Regal Bits of Trivia About Past and Present Royal Dynasties

January 04, 2025

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Royal Bees

The royal bees have been informed of Queen Elizabeth Il's passing. CRACKED.COM The Royal Beekeeper had the uncomfortable job of bringing the news to the hive, and presumably had to calm the buzzing insects and clarify it wasn't *their* queen that died. — MSN

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Royal Etiquette

Britain's Royal Prince is required to be two steps behind his wife while they are in public. This follows the order of precedence, where the most respected person should always be at the front. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Japanese Emporers

Medieval Japanese Emperors were forbidden to touch any blade. Because of this, handmaidens were tasked to trim the emperor's nails, hair, and beard using only their teeth. GRACKED.COM — Source

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King George V

King George V's time of death wAs chosen for its PR value. When George lay dying in 1936, the royal family wanted the morning journals, not the lower-

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Lawmaking

CRACKED.COM The Queen actually did influence proposed legislation It's not well-known, but the Queen's Consent is a procedure in which the British government has to ask the monarch's permission in order for parliament to debate laws that will affect them. There's strong evidence that the Queen used it several times during her reign, including influencing a draft of race relations legislation in 1968. — Source

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The Iron Throne

They invited Queen Elizabeth II to sit on the Iron Throne, but she refused. She visited the Northern Ireland set and they offered to let her sit on the Throne -- but she's not allowed to sit on a foreign throne, so she couldn't. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Esquire

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Saudi Arabian Royals

Saudi Arabia's royal family has a net worth of $1.4 trillion. CRACKED.COM This makes the family roughly 16 times as wealthy as the British royal family, which has a net worth of $88 billion. — CNBC

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Princess Diana’s Revenge Dress

Princess Diana's revenge dress was sold for $65,000 Diana put the stunning dress she wore after Prince Charles admitted adultery up for auction, with the money going up towards cancer and AIDS-related charities. CRACKED.COM — Source: People

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The Habsburgs

CRACKED THE SPANISH HABSBURGS The Spanish Habsburg dynasty, which had been in power for centuries, ended with the death of Charles II of Spain in 1700. This was caused by 16 generations of inbreeding, which had caused a lot of health issues and infertility in the royal family. — NatGeo / All That's Interesting

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Royal Underwear

CRACKED.COM There's a collector's market for royal underwear. Queen undies are a hotter commodity than the underwear of living celebrities. Pairs of Queen Victoria's bloomers have sold for over $15,000, and Queen Elizabeth I's (dirty) panties fetched $18,000 on eBay in 2012. — Source

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Monopoly

Members of the Royal Family aren't allowed to play Monopoly. TM SUPER NT ROAD SHOPSGATE MAY PAY OUR 1. KINGS ROAF COLLECT E600K 2.Kg C2M AS YOU PASS EAM GO Apparently, the game can get too vicious and cause conflicts within the family, according to Prince Andrew. GRACKED.COM — Source

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The Queen

Queen Elizabeth II and her sister snuck into the VE Day celebrations in 1945. They secretly joined the celebrations outside Buckingham palace, and she called it one of the most memorable nights of my life. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: British Legion

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Tudors to Stuarts

CRACKED THE TUDORS Queen Elizabeth I died on 24 March 1603 without choosing someone to take her place, which marked the end of the Tudor dynasty and the start of the Stuart era. — Royal Central / RMG

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Prince Harry

PRINCE HARRY SAYS HE'S UP AGAINST THE SAME CHALLENGES AS PRINCESS DIANA. Harry has accused Queen consort Camilla of giving stories to the press to make herself look better. This is something his mom Diana might have also believed. CRACKED — Public Domain/Wiki Commons
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The Ming Dynasty

CRACKED THE MING DYNASTY During the Ming Dynasty, the royal family got too big and it was too expensive to support them all, which caused financial problems and eventually led to their downfall. In 1644, the last emperor of the dynasty, Chóngzhēn, took his own life. — History / SCMP

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Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria survived eight assassination attempts over her 63 year reign. CRACKED.COM The first attempt, by Edward Oxford in 1840, happened just four months after her royal wedding with Prince Albert. The last attempt, in 1882, was by Roderick Maclean, who was beaten by umbrella wielding college boys. — History

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King Charles

Rich people requests THE MANNEQUIN KING A former Royal Family staffer said that King Charles won't undress himself. Не has an entourage undress and redress him five times per day. One member irons his shoelaces. CRACKED — Source

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King Cannibal II

CRACKED.COM King Charles II drank human skulls King Charles II paid a lot of money to drink a tincture called The King's Drops. Made from human skulls from Ireland, the cannibalistic alcohol mixture was thought to be medicinal. — Source: Gizmodo

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Prince Philip’s Racism

CRACKED.COM Prince Philip was notorious for saying racist things What were often noted as silly gaffes in the British press were actually incredibly offensive statements, including one time telling a British student studying in China, By the time you go back home you'll have slitty eyes, and another time asking an Indigenous Australian person, Do you still throw spears at each other? — Source: The Guardian

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Royal Winters

CRACKED.COM Royal boys have to wear shorts until they're 8 years old Okay, by no means a terrible offense, but it's truly wild that for tradition's sake, boys in the royal family must wear shorts in the middle of winter. — Source: CBS News

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Japan

THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL FAMILY IS THE OLDEST HEREDITARY MONARCHY IN THE WORLD, WITH A LINEAGE DATING BACK OVER 2,600 YEARS. CRACKED.COM However the monarchy is currently threatened by a male only succession law and a lack of male heirs. — NatGeo

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The Western Zhou Dynasty

Abuse of the smoke signal led to the fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty around the 8th century ВСЕ. 0$6 the King You of Zhou had a habit of fooling his war- lords with false warning beacons in order to amuse his queen. When an actual rebellion occurred, no one came to the aid of the king. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Vibrant Dot

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Buckingham Palace

CRACKED.COM Buckingham Palace banned people of color from working in clerical jobs In 1968, the Queen's chief financial officer said that it was not, in fact, the practice to appoint coloured immigrants or foreigners to office jobs in the royal household. The first record of people of color working in the royal household was in the 1990s. The Queen hired her first Black assistant in 2017. She was personally exempted from discrimination laws for over forty years. — Source: The Guardian

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Providing An Heir

If you were a king or a queen in centuries past, your intimate life was anything but intimate. Since providing an heir was SO important, the royal bum — From 5 Insane Facts From History Nobody Taught You In School.

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Princess Diana

Princess Diana actually performed Uptown Girl at the Royal Opera House. It was a total surprise and shock for Prince Charles on The Crown - and it was something the show didn't have to make up at all. CRACKED.COM — Vanity Fair

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Margot Robbie

MARGOT ROBBIE AND PRINCE HARRY Robbie mistook the Royal Prince for singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. At a housewarming in London, Robbie didn't know the redheaded man was actually Prince Harry, all the while taking photos with him and thinking it was probably the English singer. CRACKED.COM — Vogue

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A Cashless Family

Until recently, members of the British Royal Family didn't carry any cash with them. It was a centuries-long tradition, apparently kept alive out of fear of germs. Prince William was the first Royal who started carrying cash. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Yahoo

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Sweden

Sweden has officially announced that it's OK to have royal same-sex marriage. The Swedish government says that any possible marriage of a Swedish prince or princess would be treated equally, same-sex or not. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Queen Elizabeth I

CRACKED.COM Queen Elizabeth I explicitly supported the first English slave trade In 1562, John Hawkins was the first known Englishman to enslave African people. The queen approved of his journey, where he stole 300 people and traded them for hides, ginger, and sugar. In 1564, the queen gave him a vessel for his next voyage. — Source: National Portrait Gallery

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Royal Wedding Guest

Queen Elizabeth II once got invited to a wedding as a joke, and actually showed up. A couple booked Manchester town hall for their wedding, and found out the Queen would be present there for another event -- so they invited her, and she accepted. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Manchester Evening News

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Bush Dweller

Her Majesty once hid in a bush to avoid having to meet a dictator. Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu made a visit to Buckingham Palace in 1978, and the queen hid in a bush while walking her corgis so she wouldn't meet him. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Insider

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The Never King

Prince Philip never became king because of a long-standing British monarchic rule. Men who marry into the British royal family can only be prince consorts, not king consorts the title king can only apply to an actual ruler. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Town and Country Magazine

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Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip started dating/courting when he was 18 and she was 13. CRACKED.COM Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families and is a distant cousin of Elizabeth's. They both descend from the Victoria royal line. — Insider

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Prince Charles

Prince Charles dated Princess Diana's sister first Lady Sarah McCorquodale, her older sister, introduced the couple, saying, I introduced them. I'm Cupid. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: The Guardian

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Looted Artifacts

CRACKED.COM Queen Victoria used to proudly display looted artifacts In 1897, Queen Victoria had an exhibit made in Windsor Castle as a museum of relics of past sovereigns. Artifacts from India, Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan, and across the British Empire were displayed for visitors to see. The long history of looting makes us wonder the full history of both the Royal Collection and the royal's private collections of art and artifacts. The monarch is exempt from the 2017 Cultural Property, which makes it an offense to obtain unlawfully exported cultural property. — Source: The Guardian

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The Royal African Company

The British monarchy directly funded and profited from slave trade. The Royal African Company, founded by King Charles I, brought more enslaved African people to the Americas than any other institution. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM — Source: Slate

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Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II served in the army (that's where she learned to drive). She joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945 as a mechanic -- the first ever Royal to become a full-time, active member of the Armed Forces. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Royal.uk, National WW2 Museum

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Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest didn't start out as a huge beer festival in Munich. It started out as a royal wedding between Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese in 1870.

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Nazi Sympathizers

CRACKED.COM The British Monarchy was sympathetic to Nazis at first УБ Prince Edward (Queen Elizabeth Il's uncle who would become King for less than a year) had a friendly meeting with Hitler in 1937. There's evidence that he visited the early stages of a concentration camp. A 1933 17-second video leaked of Queen Elizabeth II as a child being taught to do a Nazi salute. — Source

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