Hello! Welcome back to most amazing Top 10! I am Rebecca Felgate and we’re taking a
pretty crazy walk down history’s lane as we discuss some of the worst decisions royals
have made as we discuss the top 10 Dumbest Royals of All Time.
10 - Prince Harry I love a bit of Prince Harry, but he has proved
that all the jewels in Britain can’t buy you common sense. Our favourite flame haired
royal struggled a bit at school, although to be totally fair to him, he did have a chaotic
childhood. As empathetic as we all want to be….. dressing up as a Nazi to a costume
party is a stupid thing to do when your family represents the British nation. Then, a few
years later, he was photographed naked partying in Vegas. Oh, Harry. Of course, I am sure
history will look kindly and laugh off his silly mistakes as youthful error…the same
can’t be said for the rest of the royals on this list.
9 - Marie Antionette - who was Queen Consort from 1774 - 1792
The last Queen of France, Marie Antoinette famously instructed her people to let the
peasants eat cake, marking her as woefully out of touch with her people and swept up
in a class divide she didn’t care to address. Yes, the real quote was let them eat Brioche,
but that doesn’t make it any less painfully bourgeois. Marie was either heartless or stupid,
and honestly, it seems like she was the latter. She spent huge amounts of money on clothes,
jewellery and property when the rest of the country starved. She largely contributed to
the rise of the French Revolution which led to the entire downfall of the French Monarchy.
8 - Emperor Zhengde who ruled China between 1505–1521
Zhendge was dumb, sure, but more accurately, he was insane. He inherited the throne age
14, which may lend some explanation to his actions. He turned a zoo into a huge place
to store beautiful women, creating a huge harem of mistresses….whats so stupid about
that Rebecca…it sounds like some kind of dream to some less desirable gentlemen…well
he forgot to feed them so many of them died of starvation. He also went out hunting tigers
and got himself mauled so he had to regularly miss meetings while he recovered from his
injuries…and he decided to keep gun powder at his palace during a lantern festival, which
resulted in the building burning to the ground. He created an alter ego for himself and created
a fake shopping district in his palace grounds so he could pretend to be a peasant.
7 King John of England who ruled from 1199 to 1216
King John, often called mad King John, made many mistakes. He took noble women as mistresses,
which was unacceptable during his day, where mistresses were usually lower class. When
he married his second wife, he became so obsessed with her, he abandoned his duties to stay
in bed with her. King John later entered ill advised war with France and lost Normandy.
He signed the Magna Carta and then went back on it, opening himself up to attack from the
French.
6 Christian VII of Denmark who ruled from 1766 to 1808
Christian became king at 18 and had a chronic masturbation problem. He would throw food
at people at the dinner table, would leap frog over people bowing to him and randomly
slap people in the face. I actually kind of enjoy the sound of him…except for the non
stop masturbation…which. Yeah.
5 Caligula who ruled the roman empire between 37 and 41 AD.
A lot of people tread the line between dumb and crazy and Caligula is certainly one of
them. He was ruthless and cruel, and also bat shit crazy. He attempted to make his favourite
hose Incitatus, which means galloper, as a priest and ambassador. He also built him a
beautiful marble stable complete with chairs…..but I guess the one problem was that ol galloper
couldn’t sit in them because HE IS A HORSE. He also sent his men into the ocean to fight
a war with the sea….or more specifically Neptune, the god of the sea. His soldiers
had to thrash their swords at the waves a bit. Brutal. To be totally fair, as crazy
as this is…. People really believed in sea gods in those days….taking on a god in battle
as a mere mortal is a dumb move.
A lesson to learn from our lady at number 4 – don’t off your husband and then marry
the guy accused of killing him… we have the fierce but basic Mary Queen of Scots who
lived between 1542 and 1587. Mary is no Cersi Lannister, she never had
the brains for it. Mary was a rival to her sister, Queen Elizabeth’s throne. Initially,
she became Queen consort in France, which was a safer pace for her as Elizabeth was
suspicious of her. She then made the error of returning to the UK. She was more than
likely involved in her death of her second Husband, Henry Stuart’s Death, she then
married the man suspected of his murder, the Earl of Bothwell, James Hepburn with whom
she had exchanged incriminating letters This turned the Scottish people against her and
she made her third mistake as she fled to England to her suspicious sister who imprisoned
her. Not the sharpest tool in the box, under her sisters watch, she then wrote to an anti
protestant sympathizers and plotted Queen Elizabeth’s death.
3 – Charles I who ruled England, Scotland and Ireland between 1625 - 1649
Charles was his own worst enemy. He was vein and kind of a brat. He was disliked by many
of his people for being catholic, then tried to force a new form of prayer on the Scottish,
making him very unpopular. He then dissolved parliament on many occasions, attempting to
rule on his own, which made him even more unpopular and sparked a civil war that ended
in his execution and the brief abolition of the monarchy.
2 - Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq who ruled Dehli from 1324 – 1351
This chap made the monumental mistake of deciding to relocate his kingdom from Dehli, 1,250
kilometres south to Daulatabad. The move took years and eventually, he was unhappy with
the new capital and decided he wanted to turn back…so he did…traipsing his people all
the way back. His reign was met with 22 rebellions and he managed to ruin all of Dehli’s prior
prosperity; it had been on par with Cairo as a world power.
1 - King Farouk I who ruled Egypt from 1936 – 1952
An absolute glutton who reportedly drank 30 cans of pop a day, this dude had loads of
money but liked to steal. He stole a watch from Winston Churchill! He also shot lions
in their cages at a zoo in Egypt. When the Nazis invaded Egypt, he thanked Adolph Hitler…oh….
And he had the biggest porn collection in the world. He was ostentatious and a known
philanderer. In the end he was forced to abdicate and he decided , to hold on to some power,
he would pass the crown to his baby son who was less than a year old. In the end Farouk
and his family, including the baby king, where exiled.
SO….some terrible decisions made by royals of the past…. A lot on this
list were pretty egotistical