Wardrobe and ceremonial malfunctions
Diplomatic disasters and social gaffes
Miscalculated military and political stunts
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Master of History's most awkward royal moments
andy A Swedish king tried to prove coffee was a deadly poison through a bizarre, decades-long scientific experiment on twins.
andy The French royal family's attempt to escape the Revolution failed because they traveled in a massive, luxury carriage.
andy Match each embarrassing blunder to its ruler to discover history's most awkward royal moments.
The mud swallows gold: King John of England lost the crown jewels in 1216 when his baggage train got stuck in the muddy tides of the Wash.
A complete failure, especially one that is humiliating or ludicrous. In 40 AD, Caligula ordered his soldiers to collect seashells, turning his campaign into a fiasco.
Against which mythological god did Emperor Caligula declare war at the English Channel?
Why was Louis XVI's escape carriage so easily spotted by French revolutionaries in 1791?
Which Roman Emperor ordered his soldiers to collect seashells as 'spoils of war' from the ocean?