Royalty Intrigue Fan Gifts

Mr. Punch's illustrations to Shakespeare.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty. It's always my intention to leave you laughing."

"Before you chop off my head, don't you think we should see a counsellor?"

'Now that's an afro!'

'Sire, Sodom and Gomorrah are requesting Federal disaster relief aid.'

'You realize, we can't use the 'benign neglect' method for everything.'

"Well how about that. . . Lady Godiva bought a Harley!"

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

"It's a cage. It's gilded, and I love it."

"You don't think it's too ungapatchka?"

'I guess it's not much consolation but I thought your impersonation of the King was a riot.'

'Don't be silly- of course you're going into the family business!'

"Based on the feedback from advisers whom I haven't beheaded, all of my ideas are great."

King George I

'How about a game of cards?'

Czarcasm

"The peasants are revolting Sire."

'Fancy you doing a curtsey and she being a non-serving royal, you big dope!'

"He's a guard dog."

"She wishes to range free!"

TV jester.

'You've got to cure my sleepwalking, Doc - I keep falling into the moat!'

'Did you bark, M'Lady?'

"Can you juggle a household, three kids, and a career?"

'I can't finish -- may I have a peasant-bag?'

King on the toilet whilst jester laughs because the toilet paper is out of reach.

'Gunboat diplomacy won't work, sire -- we're landlocked, remember?'

"With all due respect, Sire, the Pizza King sends his kindest regards."

'I'd think you'd be used to having a moat by now.'

'Well, nobody can say you haven't grown in office.'

"In my own country I didn't drive a taxi."

The Unhappy King

'The King of what?'

"I don't suppose you get many sovereign rulers in here anymore?"

'Democracy? -- do you REALLY want the bars closed every election day?'