I need to add an important correction to this, I have been informed repeatedly and with increasing urgency that Emmanuel Macron is in fact 5'8. It's unclear whether this disqualifies him from the short king community - that's not for me to decide.
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) October 25, 2022
So President Macron towers over the others.
I was going to lead with "Paging Mr. Pepin, please pick up the white courtesy phone" but will use it as afters to lead into 2008's "European Politicians Think They are Rulers; Need Energy Wasting Palace":
..the EU rulers (alas, they think of themselves as rulers,
not servants of the people) are masters of the "Camel's nose under the
tent" school of government. They know that if they told the populace the
truth they might be treated rougher than Louis XVI was.
When MEP's dream, are they Capetian or Carolingian?
Capetian, methinks.
I've always liked the Carolingians better,
they seemed more human-
Charles II, the Bald
Louis II, the Stammerer
Charles, the Fat
Charles III, the Simple
Along the lines of the Brit's Aethelred II, the Unready
(my fav. royal nickname)
