Facebook: October 5

5 ways we all live like royalty How our fantasy world of the past has become everyday reality. ......... he combs through newspaper archives to discover how people who lived 100 years ago envisioned life in the 21st century. .........

One pipe dream of yore: climate-controlled housing.

........ just how much amazing stuff populates our everyday life. ......... it was illegal for commoners to wear purple. Only royals could wear it. .......... “For most people in the middle ages, the concept of personal space just literally didn’t exist” ......... “You worked and ate and lived squished up against other people. And at night, entire families would share a bed. Sometimes, strangers or travelers would hop in bed with them too, to keep warm. This wasn’t weird for them. It’s just…how it was.” ........... “When you’re royalty, sex is not just sex — it is an official act of extending the royal bloodline, which is a matter of the state,” Feifer says. “So it must be…confirmed. This meant that

royal sex required a witness

.” ............... a hole … that goes outside the castle, so that you would sit on this hole and do your business. And it would literally drip down the side of the castle.” .......... Royals were lucky to have access to perfume, but the same can’t be said of all those in their employ. So take a deep breath and rest assured that what you smell is the stuff of dreams to medieval royalty............ “Even after the monarchy and the court had abandoned French and were speaking English, if you were a barrister, if you were a lawyer, you still had to learn how to speak this ‘Law French'” ............. all you need to do to live like royalty today is speak the same language as your elected leader and be able to read a legal document ............. “Sugar cane is a modern invention. Sugar beets: modern invention. Corn syrup: modern invention — and it takes a lot of factory processing to get that sweetness” .........

Like the color purple, sugar was rare because it was hard to procure and to make. Modern society has managed to flip the script.

........ “Back then, consuming sugar was a sign of status,” Cooney says, “Now, thousands of years later, industrial sugar is one of the cheapest substances available. So the marker of status has flipped.” ........

The next time you treat yourself to your favorite dessert, enjoy it as the royal delight it really is.