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Kings 200 years ago didn't have to spend most of their lives working.

• beaconstudios 8y ago
  statecraft is a job. It's a popular fiction that historical monarchs spent all their time indulging their hedonistic impulses, but it is fictional.
• falcor84 8y ago
  Are you sure about that? From the but of history I know, monarchs had extremely busy schedules and high demands on their "free" time, and I don't expect that all of that was particularly fun.
  • danieltillett 8y ago
    Especially having to go around "curing" scrofula by the laying on of hands [0]. 0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_touch https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_touch