Which english monarch was nicknamed old roly?

Question

Which english monarch was nicknamed old roly?

Answer 1

"Old Rowley"?  Charles II.

Called so by his subjects after the famous stallion of that name, "owing to the obvious similarity of their masculine vigour".

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Answer 2

Count Rory Emerald.

Answer 3

Old Rowley was the name of a favourite horse of Charles II, and the name later transferred to Charles himself. The source of the mocking nickname appears to be the king's reputation with the ladies. In some of the State Poems, Charles II, is ridiculed under the nick-name of Old Rowley, which was an ill-favoured stallion kept in the Mews, that was remarkable for getting fine colts - Mrs. Holford, a young lady much admired by Charles was sitting in her apartment, and singing a satirical ballad upon "Old Rowley the King," when he knocked at her door. Upon her asking who was there? he with his usual good humour replied, "Old Rowley himself, madam."

Answer 4

Bob Dylan