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?"

King Henry and his Cheshire bride

'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.'

"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.'

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

'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

'Did you bark, M'Lady?'

TV jester.

"He's a guard dog."

"She wishes to range free!"

"The peasants are revolting Sire."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Frankincense, dummy! I asked for frankincense!'

'The King of what?'

The Unhappy King

'The deficit doesn't look nearly so bad now that we've switched to Arabic numerals.'

'He was born with a silver spoon all right, but not in his mouth.'