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Built in the 1800s
by King Ludwig II,
Germany’s
Neuschwanstein
Castle was the
inspiration for
Sleeping Beauty’s
Castle in Disneyland.The name of the
ancient Egyptian^
queen^ Nefertiti^
meant “the
beautiful one
has arrived.”In 1252, King Haakon of
Norway gave England’s
King Henry III a polar bear.
The animal sometimes swam
in the Thames River.The
jaguar
was a symbol
of royalty to
some ancient Central American people who
believed the cat protected them from evil.A fisherman rules
the world’s
tiniest kingdom—
a 2-mile-wide island
near Italy called
Tavolara.^The first Roman
emperor to
have a^ beard^
during his reign
was Hadrian,
who ruled from
A.D. 117 to 138.Queen Liliuokalani, the
last monarch of what’s now
the U.S. state of Hawaii,
was overthrown in 1893.Turkey’s Topkapi
Palace, built by
Sultan Mehmed II,
is home to an
86-carat
diamond called theFlatulists—
people who
passed
gas on
command—^
entertained
royals in
France.Queen
Victoria
of England^
started the
tradition of
white
wedding^
dresses.Workers kissed the bed
linens of England’s
King Henry VIII tocheck for^
poison.In the 7th century,
China’s first female ruler,
Empress Wu Zetian,
created a set of
Chinese characters
called Zetian characters.BY
KAY
BOATNERThere is only one
remaining
emperor:Japan’s
Emperor
Naruhito.In 17th-century
India, some
garments worn
by royalty were
decorated with
beetle wings.The ancient Maya
considered the
quetzal bird’s^
green feathers
to be a symbol of
royalty.Only royalty in the
Inca Empire—
a civilization that ruled
parts of South America
during the 15th and 16th
centuries—could wear
fleece from an alpaca.Spoonmaker’s Diamond.
King Haakon of
Norway
a polar bear.
swam
Thames River.15 1619232722282629 302524(^171820)
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