Fluffy has a BAMF Relative

This is the most hilariously-awesome biography I have ever read.

FLUFFY IS THE HEIR TO THE EMPIRE OF THE UNITED STATES.

AND PROTECTOR OF MEXICO.
 
I love the story of Emperor Norton. He would figure heavily in an alt-earth story if I set it in that time period.
 
He's even well known in Japan:

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