HM King Nicholas was born Nick Copeman - a commoner - on 6th January 1979. He grew up like most other little boys - watching Rainbow, playing in his sand pit and dreaming of one day becoming a Cheese Wotsits Taste-Tester...

...But at twenty-five, after being unemployed for several months and failing to follow in his father's footsteps into the wheat-based snack industry, he changed his name by deed poll to HM King Nicholas and founded a new empire from his royal seat - a caravan just outside Sheringham, Norfolk...

...The King's current projects include the development of a range of sweet potato crisps and putting his near-C grade in GCSE English to good use, with a memoir of his experiences as 'England's other monarch'...

...He is also in negotiation with Jonathan Wilkes to take the lead role in an adaptation of the King Nicholas story, to be staged in association with the West Runton Amateur Dramatics Society, at the Pavilion Theatre on Cromer Pier, in Summer 2005.

Read all about how Nick Copeman became King and founded the Copeman Empire in his book.