We'll Never Be Royals Trivia Quiz

Answer: Leona Hemsley

Leona Helmsley was the wife of real estate magnate Harry Helmsley. She was convicted of mail fraud and tax evasion in 1989 during a sensational trial which included testimony that she mistreated employees. Known as a stickler for pefection, ex-employees claimed Leona would threaten and verbally abuse them before terminating their employment for the slightest infraction.

But Leona wasn't all bad. In her will she left her Maltese dog, Trouble, a $12 million trust fund!

Answer: He wore hs OBE medal on the wrong lapel.

Beckham was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, a grade within the British order of chivalry) on Nov. 27, 2003, from Queen Elizabeth II at London's Buckingham Palace. Royal protocol dictates the medal to be worn on the left lapel and he wore it on the right.

Answer: Richard Nixon

His first trip to Washington was in 1970. The bachelor prince was reportedly annoyed by President Nixon's attempted matchmaking with his daughter Tricia. Whether it was true or not, the media had a field day taking photos of the two as they were paired together for most of the royal visit.

Answer: Virginia Woolf

As part of the "Dreadnought Hoax" Virginia Woolf posed as an African prince as a practical joke. In 1910, Woolf and three accomplices donned false beards and makeup to disguise themselves as members of the Abyssinian royal family. The group conned their way onto HMS Dreadnought, then considered the "jewel" of the Royal Navy.

They received a guided tour and the ship's officers failed to notice they were impostors! The stunt went on to be a major source of embarrassment for the Royal Navy.

Answer: Henry VII

By claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, the younger son of King Edward IV, one of the "Princes in the Tower", Warbeck was a significant threat to the newly established Tudor dynasty.

Answer: Madame du Barry

The dauphine, who disapproved of the royal mistress's lowly origins and "scandalous" past as a courtesan, refused to acknowledge Madame du Barry. Marie Antoinette finally gave in to pressure at a New Year's ball when she greeted the king's paramour with the carefully chosen words, "There are many people at Versailles today."

Answer: Richard Neville 16th Earl of Warwick

Warwick was the wealthiest and most powerful English peer of his age. He obtained the crown for the Yorkist king Edward IV in 1461 and later restored to power (1470-71) the deposed Lancastrian monarch Henry VI.

Answer: False

Edward VIII actually suggested a morganatic marriage, in which Wallis Simpson would not become Queen and any children born would not have claim to the succession. Led by Baldwin, Parliament firmly rejected this proposal.

Answer: True

Unlike her predecessors, Jane Seymour was never crowned queen. Henry's treasury was depleted and in need of funds from dissolved religious houses. In addition, the outbreak of the plague and a series of uprisings in the North prevented the ceremony from taking place. Jane Seymour was buried in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle and was the only one of Henry's wives to receive a queen's funeral.

Answer: True

On April 3, 1817, a strange woman appeared in Almondsbury, a small town near Bristol, England. She spoke a strange language and communicated through gestures. She was sent to the home of Samuel Worrall, a magistrate. Mrs. Worrall thought that although her language and behavior seemed to be from some exotic, faraway corner of the world, the woman's features were definitely European.

She called herself Caraboo. A Portuguese sailor appeared who claimed to be able to speak her language and he explained that she was a princess in her own land, the island of Javasu.

She had been abducted from her island home by sailors and, after a long and arduous journey, had escaped from her captors by jumping overboard in the English Channel and swimming to shore.

When the Worralls learned that Caraboo was actually foreign royalty, they immediately announced her presence at their house to the newspapers, and soon all of England knew about Princess Caraboo. For a while the Princess lived in a grand style and the Worralls basked in the reflected glory.

A woman named Mrs. Neale recognized a description of Caraboo printed in the "Bath Chronicle". She revealed that Caraboo had recently been employed as a servant at her house, where she had entertained the children by speaking a strange, nonsense language of her own creation, and that her true name was Mary Baker. Caraboo reluctantly admitted that she was a fraud. The press had a field day reporting how she had pulled the wool over the eyes of the upper classes by appealing to their own vanity and greed!