It has been claimed that, in the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Kahn enjoyed ice cream and kept it a royal secret until Marco Polo visited China and took the technique of making ice cream to Italy.
When Italian duchess Catherine de' Medici married the Duke of Orleans (Henry II of France) and moved to France, she is said to have taken with her Italian chefs who had recipes for flavored ices or sorbets.
One hundred years later, Charles I of England was reportedly so impressed by this "frozen snow" that he offered his own ice cream maker a lifetime pension in return for keeping the formula secret, so that ice cream could be a royal perogative.
There is no historical evidence to support these legends, which first appeared in the 19th century.
And I, in fact, lifted that information straight out of wikipedia.
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