King Pepi II of ancient Egypt always kept slaves around him who were covered in honey
This was in order to keep the flies away.
King John employed someone to hold his head whenever he went to sea.
He suffered from sea-sickness.
Louis XiV of France only took three baths in the whole of his adult life.
He hated washing.
Catherine The Great of Russia imprisoned her hairdesser in an iron cage for three years.
She discovered she had dandruff.
Ludwig II of Bavaria used to shoot a peasant each morning from his bedroom window - unknown to him the gun was loaded with blank bullets and the peasant pretended to die.
He did it for good luck - he believed a peasant a day kept the doctors away.
Philippe, Duke of Orleans had to wear dresses and play with dolls until he was 12 years old.
His mother wanted to have a girl.
As a boy, King Edward VI had a friend who was smacked whenever the king was naughty.
No one was allowed to smack the king.
George V kept hundreds of clocks in his housr at Sandringham - all of them exactly 30 minutes fast.
He was always afraid of being late.
