"CRACKPOT ROYALTY"
              When everybody has to do as you say, you can get away with some very strange behaviour.

 Englush King Henry VIII (1491-1547) had a servant whose job was to wipe his bottom when he pooped.

The son of Spanish King Phillip II, Don Carlos (1545-1568) once forced a shoemaker to eat a pair of boots that were badly made.

Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886) was obsessed with swans, and surrounded himself with pictures and statues of them.