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by allywilson 838 days ago
Why?
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It's a slightly-tasteless joke resting on two facts:

1. The [King's / Queen's] Head is a common pub name in the UK.

2. Several queens have been executed by beheading at the Tower of London.

3. The word "head" in a nautical context also refers to the ship's toilet.
4. Beer head is also another name for the foam
Divorced.

Beheaded.

Died.

Divorced.

Beheaded.

Survived.

What does that mean?
It is what happened to each of the wives of King Henry the 8th. It's a famous rhyme intended to make it easy to remember the order of what happened to them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wives_of_Henry_VIII