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• [Monarch fact 1]  In the Game of Thrones, Daenerys Targaryen gets more braids in her hair as she wins more victories - following the Dothraki tradition and proving her valour as a Khaleesi.

  Monarch, Television source

• [Monarch fact 2]  Whipping boys existed in the English court in the middle ages. King’s aides were forbidden to punish the prince, so they would give the prince a normal friend and then take it out on him if the prince misbehaved.

  History, Monarch source

• [Monarch fact 3]  Helga de la Brache was a woman who grew up in lower-class circumstances but successfully posed as a Swedish princess for years. She even convinced the Swedish royal family who gave her a pension and “furniture befitting a princess.”

  Monarch, People source

• [Monarch fact 4]  Cleopatra and her son Caesarion’s death marked the end of the Egyptian empire as they were the Last Ruling Pharaohs of Egypt. After their death, Octavian established Egypt as a Roman Province. Mark Antony’s three children with Cleopatra were spared and sent to Rome. In 27 B.C. Octavian was renamed Caesar Augustus (“the revered”) and he later amassed enough constitutional powers to establish himself as the first Roman emperor.

  History, Monarch source

• [Monarch fact 5]  Alboin, King of the Lombards took his wife Rosamund as a spoil of war after he killed her father in war. At one point he made her drink from her father's skull, which he kept as a trophy and fashioned into a mug, telling her to "drink merrily with your father." She had him assassinated.

  Monarch, War source

• [Monarch fact 6]  During her 67-year reign, Queen Victoria survived at least 7 assassination attempts. One attempt was by an 18-year-old hunchbacked dwarf, who was later caught when police rounded up every hunchback and dwarf in London.

  Death, Monarch source

• [Monarch fact 7]  Richard II (1393) passed an act in the UK for all pubs to have a sign outside the establishment. "Whosoever shall brew ale in the town with intention of selling it must hang out a sign, otherwise he shall forfeit his ale."

  Law, Monarch source

• [Monarch fact 8]  Frederick the Great, Prussian Monarch from 1740 to 1786, known for his tactical genius on the battlefield, is considered by historians to be primarily homosexual in orientation. Following a demoralizing defeat, he wrote “Fortune has it in for me; she is a woman, and I am not that way inclined.”

  Monarch, War source

• [Monarch fact 9]  2 days before Christmas 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson paid a visit to Pope Paul VI where they exchanged unique gifts. While LBJ received a stunning 15th-century painting from Pope Paul VI, the pope himself received a foot-high, bronze bust of Johnson's head.

  Monarch, President source

• [Monarch fact 10]  The first recorded weight-loss surgery was performed on D. Sancho the king of Leon, Spain during the 10th century. His morbid obesity made him lose the throne so his grandmother escorted him to Cordoba where a doctor sewed his lips shut. He was then fed with only a straw. He lost half his weight and reclaimed the throne.

  Food, Monarch source

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