Queens of France have a long tradition of drama and downfalls, but Queen Marie Leszczyńska’s personal foibles put them all to shame.
Riddle: Push my buttons and I solve your problems. I know every answer without having any memory. What am I?Answer: A calculator. ...
Riddle: I'm not the alphabet, but I have letters. I'm not a pole, but I have a flag. What am I?Answer: A mailbox. ...
Riddle: I’m not a bird but I can fly through time; with my hands moving, moments chime. What am I?Answer: A clock. ...
Riddle: They can be harbored, but few hold water. You can carry them, but not with your arms. You can bury them, but not in the earth. What are they?Answer: A grudge. ...
Riddle: It looks like water, but it's heat. People have been known to follow it everywhere, but it gets them no place, and all they can do is stare. What is it?Answer: A mirage. ...
Riddle: Who always goes to bed with his shoes on?Answer: A horse. ...
Riddle: Thirty white horses on a red hill. First they champ, then they stamp, then they stand still. What are they?Answer: Teeth. ...
Henry VIII’s son Edward VI was notorious for his tragic, short-lived reign, but England’s doomed boy king has nothing on his close contemporary, King Francis II of France. From his father’s brutal demise to his mother’s cruel machinations, Francis’s life was no gilded existence—and then there was his own horrific end.
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