Europe 16th, 17thC European royal courts would keep 'monsters'; short people, 'giants', disabled people

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Subutai

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Sir Jeffrey Hudson (1619 – circa 1682) was an English court dwarf at the court of Queen Henrietta Maria. He was famous as the "Queen's dwarf" and "Lord Minimus", and was considered one of the "wonders of the age" because of his extreme but well-proportioned smallness. He fought with the Royalists in the English Civil War and fled with the Queen to France but was expelled from her court when he killed a man in a duel. He was captured by Barbary pirates and spent 25 years as a slave in North Africa before being ransomed back to England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hudson
 
Subutai said:
Sir Jeffrey Hudson (1619 – circa 1682) was an English court dwarf at the court of Queen Henrietta Maria. He was famous as the "Queen's dwarf" and "Lord Minimus", and was considered one of the "wonders of the age" because of his extreme but well-proportioned smallness. He fought with the Royalists in the English Civil War and fled with the Queen to France but was expelled from her court when he killed a man in a duel. He was captured by Barbary pirates and spent 25 years as a slave in North Africa before being ransomed back to England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hudson
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She must have had a thing about Little People, her husband was 1.63m. And that was before his head went missing.
 
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http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/apr/13/art

Dwarf Sitting on the Floor, Velazquez (1645)
 

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Marcel Proust said:
2021 and we still have royal families ?
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We do.

United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Leichenstein, Andorra, Monaco, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Bhutan, Japan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Brunei, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Tonga, Swaziland and Lesotho.

There's also a number of subnational monarchies including the Maori King in New Zealand, a number of Sultanates in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Phillipines.
 
Roylion said:
We do.

United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Leichenstein, Andorra, Monaco, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Bhutan, Japan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Brunei, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Tonga, Swaziland and Lesotho.

There's also a number of subnational monarchies including the Maori King in New Zealand, a number of Sultanates in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Phillipines.
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How many have little people as pets?
 
CD Xbow said:
They burn them in St Kilda. Peter the Great had better leave his dwarf at home next time he goes down the esplanade.
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He didn't take him to London I don't think. Mind you him and his buddies completely destroyed the hedge of a nobleman who (foolishly) lent it to them.

I believe the game they invented was racing wheelbarrows with someone inside. No idea if it was midget-themed or just those less vertically challenged. I accidentally stumbled across a pub in London call the Tsar of Muscovy that he drank in. Pretty cool. He would have banged his head for sure.
 
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