This lot are madder than Mad Jack McMad!
GREAT ROLE: Helen as Catherine THE daughter of the famed “Catholic Monarchs” Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, Juana “la Loca” – Joanna the Mad – inherited their thrones AND mental health issues.
She married a notorious lecher named Philip the Handsome, and he drove her crazy with his constant cheating.
After he died young, Juana dug up his body and carried his casket everywhere with her.
She went around Spain in a giant funeral procession, showing off his deceased body from 1506-09. THE first official royal mistress of France from 1444-50, Agnes Sorel commanded power and influence in the court of King Charles VII.
Her dress sense was outrageous, insisting on wearing her dresses so that one boob was completely exposed.
She died of mercury poisoning aged just 28 in 1450, which led to suspicion that she had actually been murdered by one of her enemies. BORN Varius Avitus Bassianus in what is now Syria, his family were priests of the sun god El-Gabal – from which Elegabalus took his nickname – and he became high priest while still a child.
With the army’s support Elegabalus was given the regal name Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus and proclaimed emperor at the age of 14 in the year 222.
He married a Vestal Virgin – but his true love was said to be a male slave named Hierocles who Elegabalus proclaimed to be his husband. FAMED Russian leader Catherine the Great is set to hit the small screen in the shape of Dame Helen Mirren.
Helen, 73, stars in a new four-part series about the sex-mad monarch who ruled her country for half the 18th century.
The series will explore the strong-minded, independent leader who was best known for her rampant shagging sex life.
Catherine was linked to many different men and when she tired of them in the bedroom, would remain on good terms and even “donate” gifts of slaves to her exes.
The Russian monarch even had a mould made of one love interest’s cock – so she could “console herself” when he was away.
What the new telly series WON’T look at is the story that she died when she was crushed to death while having sex with a horse – or that she croaked it while sat on the toilet.
Historians say both stories are myths, and that the ruler actually died in bed after suffering a stroke.
Today the Midweek Sport takes a look at the people in history who were, in the words of Blackadder: “Madder than Mad Jack McMad.” KING Edward VII is said to have had a very large sexual appetite.
He had a “love seat” with golden stirrups and knee pads just for lovemaking.
Edward also liked to “bathe with a prostitute or two in champagne,” which sounds like a waste of good fizz! FORGET all the Bible stories – Roman emperor Herod was a sicko in the bedroom, too.
His wife Marianne regularly made Herod jealous so, thanks to some conspiring from his own family, Herod had her killed.
But he could not let her go after her death.
Legend has it that he kept her dead body and still bonked it for seven years after her demise. FORMER Ugandan leader Idi Amin was a cruel dictator responsible for the deaths of more than three million people.
The power-crazed madman made all the beautiful girls in his palace victims of his insatiable lust.
Amin was fond of eating human flesh and the large number of human heads recovered from his fridge are evidence. UNDER Hitler’s leadership and racially motivated ideology, the Nazi regime was responsible for the genocide of at least six million Jews and others he deemed “subhumans”.
Hitler and the Nazi regime also killed an estimated 19.3m civilians and prisoners of war.
In addition, 28.7m soldiers and civilians died as a result of military action in the European theatre.
The number of civilians killed during World War II was unprecedented in warfare and the casualties constitute the deadliest conflict in history. SHROPSHIRE squire John Mytton began earning his “Mad Jack” nickname from an early age.
His swift expulsion from Harrow came after he left a horse in one of his private tutor’s bedrooms.
He loved to fox hunt in all weathers and in winter, if he got hot during a chase, he would strip off and ride naked through snow drifts and swollen rivers.
He fed steak and champagne to favoured dogs – from the 2,000 or so he kept – and let his favourite horse wander inside Halston Hall.