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CELEBRITY TRIVIA

ROYALTY (QUEENS)

(33 ENTRIES)

1)
Catherine the Great used to relax by being tickled, preferably by young courtiers. She was known to be a nymphomaniac particularly as she got older.

2)
Queen Victoria's first act after her Coronation was to move her bed out of her mother's room and into her own room.

3)
Queen Elizabeth I of England owned the very first wristwatch.

4)
Queen Victoria never spoke good English because her first language was German.

5)
The wife of Richard I of England, Berengaria, never actually set foot in England. She was crowned in Cyprus and spent the rest of her eight year reign in Italy and France.

6)
Queen Victoria insisted that her late Husband Albert's clothes had to be laid out every day, even after he had been dead for 40 years.

7)
Catherine de Medici once ordered that no woman at the French court should have a waist measuring more than 13 inches.

8)
Queen Elizabeth I of England had a phobia about roses.

9)
Catherine the Great of Russia took such a liking to a primrose in the palace garden that she ordered that a sentry had to guard the plant every day and every night.

10)
Queen Juana of Spain was so devastated by the death of her husband King Philip in 1506 that she was unable to be parted from him.
She absolutely refused to allow him to be buried and had his coffin accompany her everywhere she went.

11)
In 1865 Queen Victoria once ordered that six Royal Navy gunboats be sent to Bolivia to sink their fleet after relations between the two countries soured.
Her admirals, however, pointed out to her that Bolivia has no coastline and, therefore, no naval fleet.
Victoria then sent for a map and a pair of scissors and cut Bolivia from the world.

12)
Catherine the Great of Russia was so outraged to discover that she had dandruff on her collar that she ordered her hairdresser to be imprisoned in an iron cage for three years to stop the news spreading.

13)
Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar ordered that any of her subjects who appeared in her dreams had to be executed.

14)
On the day that Queen Ann Boleyn was being executed her husband King Henry VIII went off for a game of tennis.

15)
After her execution Queen Anne Boleyn of England, wife of King Henry VIII, was buried in a box that had been used to store arrows. Henry declared that she was not worthy of a coffin.

16)
Mary Queen of Scots was a keen golfer and also owned one of the first billiards tables.

17)
Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate, Lord Tennyson, earned less than her official ratcatcher 1857.

18)
British Queen Elizabeth I was the first person in the world to own a flushing toilet.

19)
During the 6th century Empress Theodora (500AD to 548AD) of Byzantium was originally a prostitute who was well known for wiggling her hips and won the hearts of the lecentious with "obscene jokes".
Justinian, who was heir to the throne, was so enchanted by her that he married her and Byzantium enjoyed an era of sexual freedom.

20)
English Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip are actually third cousins through their descent from Queen Victoria.

21)
British Queen Elizabeth II loves the corgi dog more than any other. Her very first corgi dog was called Susan.

22)
Queen Elizabeth II of England is entertained every morning with bagpipe music at breakfast when a piper marches outside the dining room window for fifteen minutes.

23)
When Marie Antoinette's horoscope was cast shortly after she was born it predicted such disaster that all celebrations were cancelled.

24)
English Queen Elizabeth I was not as serious about the Sabbath as people believed she was.
She danced on Sundays but never ever kicked her legs as high as she did on other days.

25)
Queen Victoria of England once won 6 prizes at the 1891 Crufts Dog Show when she entered her pomeranian dogs.

26)
Queen Elizabeth II of England has her own stable of racing pigeons. Each one of them wears a ring with the initials 'ER' engraved on them.

27)
When Queen Hatshepsut of ancient Egypt ascended to the throne she was officially portrayed as having a beard and no breasts.
This was because the people of Egypt were only used to male rulers.

28)
Queen Victoria of England was always thought of as being a bit of a prude when in fact she led a very active sex life.
It was once suggested to her that to avoid any further pregnancies she should give up sex altogether.

29)
Queen Zingua of Angola once had a huge harem of men and often had them executed after a night of lovemaking.

30)
Catherine the Great of Russia was addicted to sex. Before she took on a new lover she would have him inspected by the Royal doctor and then test driven by one of her ladies in waiting who would then report on his performance in bed.

31)
When Queen Elizabeth II of England visited the Arabian Gulf in 1979 she was presented with a solid gold chainmail pinafore.

32)
Queen Victoria of England once gave her husband Albert a solid silver sandwich box as a present.

33)
Queen Elizabeth I of England rarely ate a hot meal. This was because the banqueting hall was a very far distance from the kitchens.