Worldwide Stench
If you thought the King smelled bad, just imagine the servants. Almost no one back then bathed throughout their entire lives. Why would they? They had no running water, slept in dirty rooms, and had difficulty finding clean water. It's amazing anyone even attempted it...
Toilet Hole
Toilets back then were not what we know today. Instead of a porcelain throne, it's more likely that you would sit on a bench with a hole in the middle of it. The waste from the bench would either fall into a hole or farther down into a moat that surrounded a castle. Don't fall into that river...