Ethelwulf, d. 856, a sluggish uxorious man much addicted to religious practices, who, aged 58 and against the advice of St. Dunstan and his physicians, married Charlemagne's thirteen year old granddaughter. One of his natural sons became a popular Oxford don.
Frederick Louis, eldest son of George II, who's mock epitaph reads 'hear lies Fred, / who was alive and is dead, / there's no more to be said.'
George I, first Hanoverian King, d.1727, based his claim on descent from James I daughter, Elizabeth of Bohemia. Refusing to learn English he argued with his ministers in French and dog-Latin. Suspecting her adultery, he imprisoned his wife for life and took on two huge German mistresses known to Londoners as the Elephant and Castle.
Elephant and Castle has two possible derivations. One is that it is a contraction of the "infanta de Castille" who passed that way, and another that it was part of the arms of the Guild of Cutlers, based in that part of London, which depicted an elephant and howda (looks like a castle) arms to show the use of ivory.
