Ah, Ludwig, my favourite king.
I went to all his castles, and he really was a bit nuts.
He had a stone dinner table outside in his gardens. He had pluming shoot water up his guests' bums as a joke.
And, he had this room full of clocks. He was really into engineering and mechanics. And, he was so paranoid, he had a bed he could raise off the floor. I never got to see that one, so I do not understand if the floor recoiled or if the bed actually rose--in any case, the man was a genius and they really were out to get him.
The question is, Why were they really out to get him? The most logical two explanations I have ever heard are 1) He was making his family and country poor with his non-strategic castle building and 2) the man was completely depraved in his private time.
As an aside, Was Ludwig the head of some Fraternity called "the Seven Gay and Galloping Chivilric Geese?" or Serindipitous Swans? I have heard of these kinds of orders, but, by the time real information trickled out about them to an American audience during WWI, they had evidently been debased in to extremely depraved college drinking clubs.