THE SALARY OF the Garter King of Arms is £49.07, unchanged since 1830.
King George V gave the first royal Christmas speech in 1932. It was written by Rudyard Kipling.
British royals are buried in lead-lined coffins. Queen Elizabeth’s coffin weighed a quarter of a ton.
Lego makes more tyres than any other company in the world.
In Back to the Future, Michael J Fox is nine days younger than his on screen mother, and three years older than his on screen father.
The only television series in which the female lead was always played by a male actor was Lassie.
Millennials most often hail black cabs on Sunday mornings. Their phones are flat so they can’t call an Uber.
