To be a stag will be a king among guys for the night... or nowadays, more likely, for many successive nights of revelry and debauchery. But obviously Stag Do stags actually are princes and leaders and they like to really have a good old legs up only around their lowlier cousins. So, roll up good Englanders. Let us draw aside the red damask layer'tween Master and commoner and have a look at what the royals get as much as before they're wed.

King of revellers, Henry VIII, commanded his friends, by letter or town crier, to look at his 15th century bachelor parties. A no-show could result in a penalty of death. He was eager on a spot of beheading that Henry. After present and right, the party-goers were treated to a magnificent feast. James liked music and dancing. He was said to jump about such as for instance a young stag (of the deer variety), nevertheless probably that refers more to his first stag do than his last one, where time he had become clearly portly.

Master Charles II was infamous for his love of women and his high profile mistresses, like the buxom Nell Gwyn. Being a master nevertheless, Charles had to marry and therefore he committed Catherine of Braganza, from Portugal, in 1662. Charles'stag party shenanigans are shrouded in the mists of time. Nevertheless, Charles II was referred to as'the prince who liked to celebration ', so he may well have given contemporary party-lover King Harry a run for his money.

Galloping swiftly towards the present day, King Charles presented a reasonably restrained and personal stag party before his union to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. About 20 of his best buddies joined him at White's. an special gentlemen's team in St James. They dined on hors d'oeuvres, cool meats, raspberries and cheeses, all rinsed down with Bollinger champagne and classic port.

Prince William followed his father's lead when it stumbled on his stag do in 2011. He were able to dodge the attentions of the press for a extensively private stag weekend, on a nation house in Norfolk. Around 20 of his buddies served him observe his ultimate days as just one person, before his wedding to long-term enjoy Kate Middleton. Bill maintained to help keep his stag activities below wraps, but undoubtedly eating, drinking and making merry were included, continuing the proper regal convention of stag dos through the ages.

Nowadays, stag dos have actually branched out. Stag events is now able to be spied off-road operating, clay pigeon shooting, white-water rafting and doing a wide selection of other whacky pursuits... but just like their regal overlords, stags across Britain continue to be proudly carrying on the centuries-old traditions of feasting, drinking and ribaldry, as a party of the last days of bachelorhood.