King Robert and the Monkey

This is a much photographed statue in the Kibble Palace, Glasgow.

The subject is King Robert of Sicily - he features in a poem by Longfellow. He was an arrogant king who was deposed by an angel, stripped of his robes, and forced to assume the role of a jester, with only a monkey for a friend.

It is of course only a statue. But the idea of finding a naked guy with a monkey in his lap in the centre of Glasgow really wouldn't surprise me.