INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE'ish

I have bee investigating the eating habits of the Great British monarchy.

King Terrence the Second, insisted that all of his meats be cooked very well done. When once, quite by accident, an incompetent butler served him with an uncooked slumbering Ferret, the Monarch went absolutely berserk. He stabbed Sidney Boggle, the then Arch Bishop of Fife, in the thigh with a rusty prong on his toasting fork. The poor Bishop died of blood poisoning, as did the King, but a few years later, and in a different way.

During the 13th Century, King Greg VIIXCII the Third, became convinced that many of his sworn enemies, were planning to poison his food. In a blind panic he hired fifty seven food tasters, then insisted that all of his meals be sampled by each of them in turn before he would touch a single morsel. Three weeks later he died of starvation.

In 1046 King Bod IV became Britain's first Vegetarian Monarch.
After his mother, Queen Bod III, choked on a Hog, the young boy King promptly banned the consumption of all meat based products throughout his Kingdom. This led to an unprecedented explosion in the live stock population.
Culminating in the great Cattle revolt of 1048, when a herd of hungry Frisians stormed the gates of Buckingham Palace and ate all the Royal grass.