The Pettiest Kings and Queens In History
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- Kings and queens wield a lot of power - and sometimes, they let that power go to their heads. Just look at the petty figures of historical royalty who started wars over minor slights, or publicly snubbed people for upsetting them. Queen Victoria ignored her daughter Beatrice for months after Beatrice said she wanted to get married, and the Queen Mother was so angry at Wallis Simpson that she pretended the divorcee dating her son didn't exist. One king put a mouse on trial, while another ordered his soldiers to whip the sea when his bridge collapsed.
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I read this as “prettiest” kings and queens in history 😂
So did I 😆
Same!
I was really excited for Prettiest Rulers!
Me too!
Same ☺️
“The water would never recover” is probably my favorite line now
"The Water Never Recovered"...Even after Centuries of Therapy😂😂😂 my Favorite Narrator🔥
The rat on trial is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard lmao
So is the thought of a tiny rat sized gallows lmao 😂
Weird History saying “spill the tea” and “ ok queen” was not on my 2023 Bingo Card but I love it 😂🤠
Edward II was petty, however, his wife, Isabella avenged herself by encouraging uprisings against him, having his lovers and allies killed and ultimately, got him deposed and put her son, Edward III, on the throne before having her husband killed.
Game, set, and match: Isabella. 😮
If I were ever trapped somewhere and they said I could only have 3 CZcams channels to watch for the rest of my life weird history would undoubtedly be one. I really love this channel.
So true!!!
I think award for most petty has to go to the guy who waited a whole year to get revenge on someone who broke his vase
You seriously undersold what a bad bitch Isabella was. She got her revenge in spades. Honestly, you should just do an entire video about how bonkers the relationship between Edward II and Isabella was.
You should do it.
Dude slapped a lake. Bawler.
Peter III was probably just a hilarious person...
Seeing that "Babar" elephant REALLY brought back huge nostalgia. Thank you @Weirdhistory I know wat to watch to feel like a kid again 👍🏿
Catherine the Great was petty too. She was like, “Screw it, my husband is an idiot. I’m running Russia myself. I’ll show Peter who’s Great around here!”
I wouldn’t call that “petty” any more so than calling the United States petty for overthrowing British rule.
Peter was a world class idiot and a man-child of Pee Wee Herman proportions…if Catharine didn’t do it, someone else would. She just made sure to secure her place in history.
To be fair, her husband wasn't much better than her.
I can just imagine a Wes Anderson film with Peter The Third prosecuting the rat haha
The rat on trial...that's so crazy... building a mini hangman's gallow for its execution...insane 😂
The portrait of Philip IV shown at 8:46 is of the Spanish king, not the French. 400 years difference
Who wrote this episode, every joke had me dying 😂
Hanging a rat for treason is just about the weirdest thing I have ever heard that a royal did!
All of them were savage since most royals were mad.
Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's fixated with the history of European nobility (especially Medieval) I strongly recommend Shwerpunkt
So the Karen thing has been around for a while it seems
Been around since the wheel was invented
Catherine the Great enters husband's room finding him having a trial for rat and making a miniature Gallows to hang it
Catherine " okaaaaayyy, I'll just take care of the country while you do this"
On the one hand where's Henry 8th? On the other, he needs an entire video to himself 🤣
Imagine being so powerful you have the stones to have your army beat up water!
Well you can’t really call Queen Caroline petty for dying soon after her husbands coronation to make him look bad. She had actually been suffering from cancer for sometime, and that’s what actually killed her. So a guy that locks his cancer stricken wife out of his coronation deserves to look bad. It’s not like her death came out of the blue.
"They just narrowly missed a Frozen..." Why did I laugh so hard 😂
You say that line about Victorians being petty as if that's a surprise... I thought it was iconic of the time, lmao
"She gave birth to a shark." Thanks, I hadn't choked on my drink yet today.
I thought you were going to say that James VI declared that his new wife WAS the witch
She never turned him into a newt.
She DID! But he got better.@@ladymacbethofmtensk896
James was well known for preferring young, attractive male "companions", over his wife.
Another great vid by Weird History
PS: PLEASE! Give Us An Update On Season 4 Of The Timeline Series
When I first clicked on this I read the title as THE PRETTIEST KINGS AND QUEENS OF HISTORY 🤣This was good too. I remember reading somewhere that Queen Victoria fuelled a rumour about one of her ladies , Lady Flora Hastings, that the unwed lady was pregnant. Turned out that the chaste woman died of some type of abdominal cancer. Queen Victoria had to apologize to the family and try to repair the deceased s reputation.
We must all keep our emotions and thoughts to ourselves. Unless were really happy.😁👍
I love how you say Weird History ❤
Pretty good video. However, the entry on Peter III isn’t quite right. The whole “playing with toy soldiers and executing a rat” is absolutely accurate. But it happened while Peter was still the heir, not the emperor. And it wasn’t for many more years, until he and Catherine were the emperor and empress, that she had him offed.
@6:10 This is not Peter III. This is Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov-Chesmensky.
@6:44 I’m pretty sure this is also not Peter III.
@6:50 This is Empress Elizabeth Petrovna Romanova, not Empress Catherine the Great.
@8:37 This is King Philip IV of Spain, not France. They lived several hundred years apart.
@8:26 This is not King Edward II. It is King George II of England. They also lived several hundred years apart.
Love your narration
I laughed too hard at the WITCHES! And tiny rat gallows part 😂
Another enjoyable video! Rumer that William the Conquerer when he was still Duke Of Normady cut the feet and hands off 50 men because they called him a bastard
I absolutely love the dude that narrates these. So freaking funny!! 😂😂😂
This was one of your best ones recently
Victoria was also so petty that she blamed one of her sons for her husband's death so she posed in the front of his wedding photo staring mournfully at a painting of her dead husband.
Some vases can not be replaced.
2:56 I remember the South Park episode "Chef Aid" when Johnny Cochran is hired because he never loses a case.
In the episode, he uses "the Chewbacca Defense, a technique so advanced nobody understands it." (South Park Studios)
The most savage one for me was the queen whi denied her child because looks 😢
This was Amazingly Weird ❤
Awesome episode! Thank you 🤘😝🤙
On the petty theme... IT'S PRONOUNCED JIFF!
Keep ‘em coming!
5:28 What a unique and crazy story!
00:23. Mmm. Is pettiness a basic instinct, or a *base* instinct?
"A subconscious urge, behavior, or intuition directed by primeval, animalistic, self-serving, or ignoble motivations." (From thefreedictionary)
9:33. You should google what Queen Isabella did to him afterwards. The promise she made to the dying Longshanks was fulfilled with a vengeance.
ARENT MOST ROYALS PETTY BY NATURE!!!😂😂
It's also said that Xerxes had shackles thrown into the ocean and have it branded with a poker.
Fun fact, Jame VI's obsession with witches is partly what inspired the witch scenes in Macbeth.
Also. Herodotus's accounts should be taken with a grain of salt. The ancient Greeks hated Persia, and historical accounts of his have been known to be embellished.
Also...poor rat, just wanted a little snack.
The narrator has me 😂😂😂😂😂😂 and I love it! Makes learning more about history more interesting ☺️
Props to Beactrice, so many modern people let their parents rule their love lives
This is the first thing I’ve watched here- and I’ve laughed more in 4 minutes than I have in days. Thank you! “She’d given birth to a shark.” “WwwwiiiitchESSSSSSSS!” A new fave!
…..like the song says…….”People are People so what should it be”….
Isabella got back at Edward plenty.
At first glance, I thought the title was the prettiest... 😂😂😂
Soon we're going to lose this narrator for an acting career! 😅❤
English kings are usually so petty 🤣🤣🤣
Aaaawww, I had hoped you would play "Die Moldau" throughout the video (It's my favorite piece of music :D)
Xerxes, take it easy, the Hellespont didn't do it on purpose!
Ooh, I love Smetana's Themes from the Moldau for the background music!
“WWWHiiiTttCHEsSsss!” Oh noooo hahaha 🤣😂🤣😂
They should be called EVIL not petty.
1:45 rare footage of an YTP in Medieval times
5:49 "Toy Soldiers" by Martika was a #1 hit for two weeks in 1989.
Great music video!
6:18 Honestly that shit was like adult legos back then I totally understand the dude lol
I read prettiest but I wasn't disappointed but the actual content
Seems the portraits of the people showed them all with flowing locks, and perfect skin, even the men! I guess Photoshop's been around a lot longer than we thought!
"A LARPer halfassing it." 😁 🤣😉😀
hehe love the background song in your intro. Ma vlast by Smetana.
I read “Prettiest” and I was like, “this video isn’t that accurate in my opinion.” My bad 😅
5:16 I remember sitting in beanbags when in college.
Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
This time eating COCO PEBBLES cereal* and drinking FOLGER"S CLASSIC ROAST^ coffee...while watching this Weird History video!
* From the Weird History Food video "Why Was the 80s the Golden Age for Sugary Cereals?"
^ From the Weird History Food video "Incredible Things Coffee Does To Your Body"
James VI and I was great at taking things personally, as evidenced by the fact that he thought nearly being shipwrecked meant that the devil was personally out to get him!
0:46 That image reminds me of the slasher film Thanksgiving that is coming out next month.
I don't remember seeing a Thanksgiving horror film before.
When I meet my maker, and I'm not talking about either of my parents, I want you to narrate my life at my funeral. Though, there is nothing of significance to really tell, you can even make up all the shiit you want. That would be great, thanks!
Because pettiness is bound to no era
They are really petty
Some hopeful thought-fodder:
The hated and despised daughter of Swedens Queen had to live with her mother after her father fell in Lützen.
It can be said that she did not received much care or love by her, and we would probably rate the mother as "manic depressive". The situation must have been abysmal since authorities basically decided to take the mothers right over her daughter away.
But she made it through her youth, and became Queen of Sweden.
Interestingly many of her youth stories sound the closest we have to all those tom-boy princesses we have on TV. She often wear mans cloth, got a male hair-cut and
loved male-typical activities and was officially raised as future ruler. As ruler she did a solid job. She actually enlarged Swedens territory (with succesful negotiations) helped to end the 30 year war, ended witch-trials in Sweden for ever and became known for building libraries and theaters and supporting the enlightenment.
. She was often called the Pallas (from Pallas Athena) of the North. Sadly she didn'T had a good relation to money..but at least she was self aware enough to give up power instead of clinging to it and lived a (probably) relatively happy live in Rome.
In my opinion she is a prime example for humans resilience and our skill to thrive against all odds.
5:03 😂 That part of King James I and VI. He was horrible with that. I swear he had some sort of mental illness or just like blaming others for whatever went wrong in his life.
@WeirdHistory Please do a video on the history of the Ouija board!!! It is getting close to Halloween and I am sure many others would be interested in hearing about the wee wooden board.
3:49 Gosford Park (2001) is such a great film, I often think about that.
The film has such beautiful sets.
Persian or Chinese, way back, was fond of melons. They left the feast for a few, and came back to find the melon was missing. They called their doctor to open the stomach of the guard to find out if they had eaten it. No melon. It was dismissed with an astonishing level of nonchalance. I don’t remember any more.
ITS NI WONDER CATHERINE HAD PETER KILLED
@5:00 Yes that is the same King James that had the Bible editted to his specs. AND wrote his own book about witches. His witch book was even used during the American witch craze.
Should make you wonder about his Bible.
Very interesting!
7:18 From 1st to 12th grade, I lived on Snyder Street.
Since we lived on the town's end, we were the only house on the street.
Ramses II tried to erase an entire persons existence. What do you mean WHICH was the most petty?
It's good to be the king!
Missread the title and thought it said prettiest kings and queens
This short doesn't even scratch the surface of how bitter the relationship between George IV and Caroline of Brunswick was (and he did WAY worse to her than that last bit). For starters, George IV only married Caroline, because his father, George III (and Parliment) wouldn't pay off his son's exorbitant debts if he didn't. It wasn't helped that George IV, was already married to Maria Fitzherbert (though, this union wasn't recognized by the state because Fitzherbert was Catholic, and thus it was illegal for George IV to take her as a wife).
After the birth of their only child in 1796, George drew up a will that not only cut Caroline completely out of any inheritance in the event of his death (save for one shilling), but forbade Caroline from having any interaction with their daughter, Princess Charlotte of Wales without supervision. Over the years, George had Caroline investigated several times for adultery (which is downright hilarious, given that George had several mistresses). It got so bad, that Caroline actually moved to Italy in 1815. Upping the pettiness George didn't even bother to tell Caroline that their daughter died from complications of childbirth in 1817.
Caroline was repeatedly dragged by the press that was loyal to George, with a lot of hay made about the rumors of adultery, something that intensified after her move to Italy and hiring of a retainer, Bartolomeo Pergami.
9:44 Since I am Uncle Ben to my nephew, I am trying to find the perfect time to say "With great power comes great responsibility".
There is a good chance he will know the reference but will not fully grasp the humor of me saying the line.
Just remember that you are supposed to say that line again and again and again and again and again and again.
11:30 The former superintendent of Hemingford, Nebraska is the superintendent for the school here.
Hemingford Home, the town in Stephen King's The Stand, is named after Hemingford, Nebraska.
Since I have watched the first thumbnail recommendation, I am going to watch the second and "The Brutal History Behind Tarring And Feathering"
Victoria was queen of the UK, not of England
5:26 I was going to be a druid for Halloween, but I am just not prepared to pull off a great costume (will try for next year).
I am going to dress up with my college graduation gown and hat and play The Graduate soundtrack (1969) with a boombox.
Technically, my costume will be Benjamin Braddock.
Here before history started
Hearing a grown man say the word "Petty" and "Okay Queen, lets dish".... you gotta love the AI written scripts lol. Poor guy reads some wacky stuff
Not sure I’d describe what James VI did as petty. Several people were executed by the state and it was the start of 130 years of witch trials where around 2500 Scottish people, mostly women were executed.
By comparison that’s five times more than were killed in England which had about 10x the number of people.
The Scottish government officially apologised for these executions in 2022.
Hey weird history when is timeline coming back?