The King of Tonga, “the world’s only Methodist sovereign and for many years, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the world’s heaviest.”

The king’s Mom, Queen Salote, was the butt of one of Winston Churchill’s jokes. At the coronation of the present British monarch in 1953, leading politicians of the day, including Churchill, were seated in Westminster Abbey well beforehand. Churchill had been there a while and was getting grouchy when Queen Salote entered, with a little Tongan boy holding up the train of her dress. She was a striking figure (Tongan monarchs are respected in proportion to their girth), and one of Churchill’s colleagues commented on her, adding: “…but I wonder who the little fellow is.” Churchill, from the sour depths of his grouchiness: “Her lunch?”