I am proud to introduce our newest segment, Famous Hamsters in History, for the fourth time (still proudly brought to you by State Farm Insurance).

Sugar was the first, and somehow, only hamster to find their way into any Royal Family. Sugar reigned as prince of Denmark from 1846 until his death in 1850. Due to an oddly timed provision passed by the Danish Folketing (the national Parliament of Denmark), royal pets were allowed into the line of succession. After King Christian VIII, his wife Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel both died in a tragic food-related incident (one of Sugar’s first orders was to denounce the royal chef and have his head placed upon a spike despite the fact that royalty had been stripped of such an ability centuries ago.).

In his time, Sugar was seen by his subjects as a fair and just ruler. The majority of his edicts concerned the proper width of bars for hamster cages (six inches) and an official stated preference for alfalfa over wheatgrass.

Some historians and biographers believe that prince Sugar would have given Denmark a free constitution had he lived long enough, and his last words are sometimes (rather tragically) recorded as “I didn’t make it”.

He died of regicide in 1850 and his body was interred in the hamster version of Roskilde Cathedral. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Boble for det Første (”Bubbles the First” in regular) until the entire country of Denmark was decimated and people realized that it was really dumb to have a hamster for a king.