▲While enjoying a lavish dinner hosted by the Duchess of Buckingham, King Charles I and his young wife, Henrietta Maria of France, were presented with a pie.

▲It is believed that the ancient Greeks invented pie pastry.

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▲According to The Vintage News, Jeffrey Hudson, the court dwarf of Queen Henrietta Maria, popped out of the pie, dressed as a knight. He was just 1 ft 6 in tall.

▲Pie dates back to ancient Egypt.

▲Drawings of galettes can be found etched on the tomb walls of Ramses II, who ruled from 1304 to 1237 BCE.

▲Queen Henrietta was amused by the gesture and requested that Hudson join her entourage. Hudson became a resident of the Queen's Denmark House, alongside two other dwarfs. It was a custom of European courts of the time to keep people with growth conditions for amusement.

▲The pies of that era were usually filled with beef, lamb, wild duck, or pigeon.

▲According to Pie Council, ancient Greek pie pastry was solely used for the purpose of holding the filling while it cooked. Pastry was the original baking dish or cake tin.

▲According to What's Cooking America, historians found that pie can be traced back to the Neolithic Period around 6000 BCE.

▲Hudson was later dubbed Lord Minimus and would remain a close acquaintance of Queen Henrietta Maria for the next 18 years.

▲According to Food Timeline, crusaders brought the recipe to medieval Europe.

▲Early medieval pie crusts were discarded and given to the poor after the content was eaten. According to Everything Pies, the crust was called a coffin and had to be several inches thick to withstand many hours of cooking.

▲The pastry also came in handy as a storage container so the food could be kept or taken elsewhere.

▲After the Romans conquered Greece, they took the local recipes and spread the word about pie via the Roman Road.

▲The Pilgrims who colonized America brought pie recipes with them.

▲Food historians trace the origins of pastry to ancient Mediterranean baklava.

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According to Everything Pies, apple pies were originally made with unsweetened apples and surrounded by a hard, inedible pie crust.