Will Smith owed $2.8 Million to the IRS and almost went bankrupt just before he signed the contract for The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air.
100 Mind-Blowing Prince Facts
Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was also the voice of Shredder from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.
There’s an American flag on royal wedding souvenirs. The wedding of Prince Harry to American Meghan Markle brought much fanfare and excitement and that shows on souvenirs, including this coffee mug. Bet you didn’t expect to find an American flag at this wedding!
Prince William and Prince Harry have a half-sister called Laura who largely stays out of the public eye. She was born in 1978 and her parents are Queen Camilla and her then-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles.
The British Royal Family can’t play Monopoly. It’s not really because of a royal decree (Like how the Queen can’t sit on the Iron Throne since she can only sit on hers!). One of the ridiculously unbelievable funny facts: Prince Andrew said playing the game “gets too vicious” for the Royal Family.
Stephen Hawking was rumoured to run over the toes of people he didn’t like. The world-renowned physicist used a wheelchair from the age of 22 due to a severe form of motor neuron disease. This didn’t stop this from having a bit of fun, crushing the toes of many who drew his ire – including the UK’s Prince Charles himself! When confronted about this tendency, Hawking passed it off as a “malicious rumour” before jokingly threatening to run over the toes of anyone who repeated it.
Disney was running out of time when producing Beauty and the Beast, so they reused the animation dance from Sleeping Beauty for Belle and Prince Adam’s dance.
The wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles was watched by 750 million people worldwide in 1981; sadly, 2.5 billion watched her funeral in 1997.
Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, wasn’t the first to introduce Christmas trees to Britain from his native Germany—Queen Charlotte did that in the late 1700s. But, Victoria and Albert are credited with popularizing the custom in the mid-1800s.