Royalty Facts

Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.

Eight U.S. states are named after British royalty - Georgia, the Carolinas, Louisiana, Virginia, Maryland, and New York all trace their names to kings, queens, or royal dukes.

In 2012, archaeologists dug up a parking lot in Leicester, England, and found the skeleton of King Richard III — lost for 527 years. He was the last English king killed in battle, buried in a hasty unmarked grave in 1485. An amateur historian convinced a university to dig up the car park on a hunch. They found him in the first trench, six hours into a two-week excavation. The parking space above his grave was marked with the letter "R."