Marilyn's Photos - Oct 3 2025 - Live LIke Kings

 

If we lived like Kings then what? Well, on the toilet theme of the last few days, we would have a Groom of the Stool,  a high-ranking servant by our side.   In our age - a robot -  will attend to our private needs.   Monitoring the king's health was the key aspect of the job. This was done before our familiar flush toilet.  The first flush toilet was invented in 1596 for Queen Elizabeth I.  It turned out to be very loud and frightening.  It wasn't until the late 1800s that they were in regular use by kings and queens.  And of course, it is Queen Victoria who brought the separate room of the bathroom to the royal palace. So we might consider that we already live like kings and queens in this small but critical area of daily living.  And what pops up on the subject of toilets?  Prince William spent three months scrubbing toilets in Chile during his gap year.  He was working as part of a UK-based company called Raleigh International, which coordinates community and environmental projects in South America. Isn't this a weird little factoid. But it isn't unusual it shows up.  Those Royals keep showing up time and time again in the news and in Pinterest feeds.  It must be that North America is fixated on them, as I don't do any searches to get myself this barrage of pictures and stories.   Here's something - Queen Anne's Lace - "gets its name from legends associating the flowers's appearance with Queen Anne of England who was known for her lace-making skills.  Common stories claim the plant's delicate, lace-like bloom and its often dark-red center, a single drop of blood, was a drop of blood shed by the Queen herself while sewing lace."

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