"Alright I don't remember the specifics. But there was a king (I believe a sumerian king) who was told by an oracle that "Disaster would befall the king." So he had a gardener crowned as king for a day, and that night the gardener would be executed, thus fulfilling the prophecy and saving the real king.
Soon after the gardener's coronation, the real king choked on soup and died. The gardener ruled for 24 years"
All this was loooong before 'we' became a kingdom in it's current form