To become a stag is to be a king among men for the night... or today, more likely, for many successive days of revelry and debauchery. But of course some stags really are princes and leaders and they like to have a traditional hips up only as much as their lowlier cousins. Therefore, roll-up good Englanders. Let us pull away the red damask curtain'tween King and commoner and have a glimpse at what the royals get up to before they're wed.
Master of revellers, Henry VIII, commanded his buddies, by page or area crier, to seem at his 15th century bachelor parties. A no-show can result in a penalty of death. He was keen on an area of beheading that Henry. Once present and correct, the party-goers were handled to an extravagant feast. James liked music and dancing. He was said to jump about such as a small stag (of the deer variety), though perhaps that refers more to his first stag do than his last one, through which time he'd become remarkably portly.
Master Charles II was infamous for his love of girls and his high account mistresses, including the buxom Nell Gwyn. Being a king nevertheless, Charles had to marry and so he committed Catherine of Braganza, from Portugal, in 1662. Charles'stag party shenanigans are shrouded in the mists of time. Nevertheless, Charles II was called'the king who liked to party ', therefore he may well have given modern day party-lover Prince Harry a function for his money.
Galloping quickly towards the current day, Prince Charles used a reasonably controlled and private stag party before his relationship to Woman Diana Spencer in 1981. Around 20 of his nearest friends joined him at White's. an distinctive gentlemen's membership in St James. They dined on hors d'oeuvres, cool meats, raspberries and cheeses, all rinsed down with Bollinger champagne and vintage port.
King Bill used his father's lead when it came to his stag do in 2011. He was able to dodge the attentions of the press for a extensively personal stag week-end, on a nation house in Norfolk. Around 20 of his friends served him enjoy his final days as a single person, before his wedding to long-term enjoy Kate Middleton. Stag Do managed to keep his stag activities under gadgets, but no doubt consuming, consuming and creating happy were included, ongoing the proper royal convention of stag dos through the ages.
These days, stag dos have really branched out. Stag parties may now be spied off-road operating, clay pigeon firing, white-water rafting and engaging in a wide variety of other whacky pursuits... but the same as their royal overlords, stags across Britain remain happily carrying on the centuries-old traditions of feasting, consuming and ribaldry, as a celebration of the last days of bachelorhood.