By Vania Raebel | June 21, 2019
Have you ever dreamed of what it’s like to live like royalty? Countless servants at your beck and call, every whim and desire just a command away. Royal life apparently once went much further than that with people not only there to (figuratively) kiss your ass, but to (literally) wipe it too.
In the past, a person was specifically tasked to assist the king with his activities in the bathroom, and that included wiping his butt for him. The title of the job was Groom of the King’s Close Stool. This was a viable job option from before the 1500s right through to the Victorian era.
