1. The King Who Had Intestinal Issues
There are many things people fear for their wedding day. Some fear that they will be left at the altar or that they are making the wrong decision while other fear there won’t be enough food for everyone or will the trip going down the aisle. However, for a king in the 800s, his worries the night before his wedding dealt with his health. King Alfred the Great, the King of Wessex, was 19 years old when he was going to marry his bride in 868. By this time, the king had been bothered with painful hemorrhoids.
In wanting to get rid of the pain, and probably have the best wedding possible, Alfred prayed the night before his wedding day. When he prayed, he asked that he would be given a less painful illness. However, when Alfred woke up the morning of his wedding day, the soon-to-be groom woke up to worse pain than the day before. The pain in his intestines was so great that Alfred started to wish that he had stuck with the hemorrhoids. Today people believe that Alfred the Great actually had Crohn’s Disease.
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