16 scandals that rocked the British royal family

Sex, lies and video cassettes are part of life at Buckingham Palace.


Lounging in the aftermost range of fairy tale marriage ofPrince Harry andMeghan murderNow the Duchess of Sussex, the British Royals are more popular than they have been for a long time. Everything seems good at the Palace of Buckingham and Kensington where the family and their spouses are, for the moment, beautifully, without drama.

But a look at the years show that the royals have been systematically at the center of the scandals involving marriages, an infidelity and a bad judgment of fashion in plain, which is one of the reasons why they continue to fascinate ourselves. Here is a look at the 16 scandals that rocked the British royals. And if you can not get enough drama at the palate, do not missThe 8 best movies on the British royal family!

1
The abdication of 1936

King Edward VIII
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WhenKing Edward VIIIcelebrates the throne on December 11, 1936, so it was free to marry American divorcedWallis Simpson,His actions knocked out the British Royals and changed the succession line forever.

The Church of England did not recognize the marriages between divorced and, as Church leader, Edward could not go against his teachings. Rather than precipitate a constitutional crisis, Edward pushed the role of the monarch on his brother Albert, the Duke of York, who became reluctantlyKing George VI.

The stress of being king has contributed to George's poor health and when he died in 1952, his oldest daughter, the 25-year-old Princess, Elizabeth, becameQueen Elizabeth II, Current and longest monarch of England.

2
Princess Margaret and Captain Peter Peter Townsend

Princess Margaret

The youngest younger sister of Queen Elizabeth fell in love withCaptain Peter Townsend, a war hero and the equory who worked for the royal family. Townsend was older and divorced, but when he proposed in 1953,Princess margaret was determined to marry it. The Church of England, whose Queen is the Supreme Head, has still not recognized the divorce at the time.

The romance of the couple had considerable public support, but the government and the clerics of the country were opposed to marriage. When he faces the choice of the abandonment of his royal rank and leave England or marry Townsend in exile, Margaret finally decided to marry the man who was the true love of his life. In 1955, they broke their commitment, thus ending one of the greatest love stories of the British royal family.

3
Princess Margaret and Lord Disastrous Wedding of Snowden

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Heartbroken on his break with Townsend, Princess Margaret Bride Photographer and Notorious PlayboyAnthony Armstrong-Jones In 1960. It was not long before their marriage became a source of "ridiculous in public growth", according toThe New York Times. Margaret and Lord Snowden, as we knew after the wedding, took a separate holiday and the princess "" Friendship "with a much younger man guarded the British tabloids occupied. The couple announced his separation in 1976 and divorced two years Later, making Margaret the first royal divorce from Henry VIII.

4
Love Letters Stolen from Princess Anne and Timothy Laurence

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The only daughter of Queen Elizabeth was unfortunately married to the Olympic EquestrianMark Phillips,who she married in 1973. In the spring of 1989, a British tabloid was held by written stolen letters toPrincess Anne by one of his missionaries, the British naval officerTimothy Laurence. The contents of the letters has been described as "extremely intimate" and "too hot to manage" in the newspapers.

Anne and Phillips divorced in 1992 and she married Laurence in Scotland a little while after. The couple is always together. And for a crazier story of the Royal Fam, check these30 Fascinating facts about British royal weddings.

5
"Squidgygate"

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In 1992, while his marriagePrince Charles implored, a strip record of a conversation of 30 minutes betweenprincess diana andJames Gilbeywas mysteriously got and made public. (A newspaper set up a 900 number in which people could call and listen to the cassette for fees.)

In the conversation, Gilbey told Diana that he loved it and called it by the "squidgy" pet name 53 times. Despite the answers of Diana de "You are so nice", the band has become one of the many scandals that hastened the end of the wedding disturbed of Wales.

6
"Camillagate"

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The same year, shortly after the Diana tape, a recording of an extremely intimate phone call between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles has been made public and there remains one of the most humiliating things that occur in the Royal family.

On the Charles band and Camilla Exchange Cringe-incorporating the love Discussion at Charles telling Camilla, he would be happy to "live inside his pants ... or, God forbids a tampax". You see, we told you, atrocious. And yes, we think it deserves to join the17 worst things that a man can tell a woman.

7
Andrew Morton's Tell-Everything

Princess Diana

The tabloid journalist occurred on a career story when he was approached to write a book about the unfortunate life of Princess Diana as a member of the royal family - with the princess herself like the main source Secret.

Good friend of DianaJames Colthurst served as part of the author and the princess. He would receive a list of Morton questions, then bike in Kensington Palace, where he would record the answers of Diana. WhenDiana his true storyHit the shelves in 1992, he blind the royal family and blew the lid on the story of the unfortunate marriage of Diana and Charles.

Not so coincidentally, the couple officially separated later that year. Diana has denied having something to do with the book. The Queen was furious of the representation of the royals as terribly cold and insensitive to the princess. After Diana's death in 1997, Morton revealed what many people had suspected a long time - she was behind the explosive book. Morton, who recently wrote an unauthorized bio onMeghan murder, also released the complete transcriptions of the interviews in an updated version of the international best-seller.

8
DianaPanorama maintenance

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Once the truth came out of his unfortunate marriage in Charles, Diana felt that "men in gray" at Buckingham Palace plotted to get rid of her - or, at the very least, marginalize and possibly take his sons.

She has relayed by personally organizing her inflamet interview withMartin Bashir toPanoramawhich broadcast on November 20, 1995 on the BBC (and refurfoadcast on ABC in America withBarbara Walters as a host). The Princess and Bashir have developed the questions in advance and Diana was ready with several memorable answers.

When asked why his marriage in Prince Charles lacked failure, she pronounced the unforgettable line: "We had three to this marriage, so it was a little crowded," referring to the Prince's business withCamilla Parker Bowles. The broadcast was broadcast on the Queen's wedding anniversary and made it possible to kill any goodwill Diana who remained with the Royal at the time. The Queen wrote to Diana and Charles soon after the show broadcast, they had to divorce, they did in 1996. Diana later said friends that she regretted to interview.

9
Fergie and his financial advisor

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Sarah Ferguson, The Duchess of York and the wife ofPrince Andrew, was captured by the photographers of Paparazzi presessing the pool at the top of his "financial advisor"John Bryan. A single infamous photo broke Bryan sucking the toes of the duchess - with his young girls standing nearby.

As soon as the photos hit the papers, the queen invoked Fergie to Buckingham Palace and she was effectively banished from the family. She and Andrew separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996. Fergie was so despised by the royals she had not been invited to a royal function since (untilPrince Harry andMeghan Makle's Marriage last month, where it was allowed to attend the ceremony; Prince Charles refused to have the private dinner). All this should do for an interesting wedding reception when his daughter,Princess Eugenie, Married at the Chapel of St. George in October.

10
Fergie takes a pot-de-wine

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The role of Sarah Ferguson of Perpetual Royal Paria has been placed in the stone in 2010 when aWorld newsThe journalist posed like a businessman and, on a video tape, got Fergie to accept a wine pot 500,00 £ (about $ 633,000) in exchange for access to his ex-husband. When the video recording has been published on the media, a firgie humiliated apologized, saying that she had made a "serious decision-sensitive" and continuedOprah Winfrey'sTalk Show (and had a short-life reality) to try to rebuild his image. Chocuser, she lived with her ex-husband all the time - and remained under the same roof for many years.

11
Prince Andrew and his criminal friendship

Prince Andrew and the Queen

The Duke of York, which had been sent by Great Britain from 2001 to 2011, was forced to resign because of the editing criticism on his friendship with the guilty sex offenderJeffrey Epstein.

12
Short detox struggle of Prince Harry

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After the prince admitted to his father that he had tried the marijuana, the 17 years spent a day at the Featherstone Lodge rehabilitation center in London. The palace issues a statement that Harry had agreed to visit the clinic "to learn more about the possible consequences of starting cannabis".

13
"Harry The Nazi"

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In January 2005,The sun Posted a photo front page ofPrince Harry Wear a Nazi armband during a costume evening with the title "Harry The Nazi". The 20-year-old prince quickly published a declaration of excuses that read: "Prince Harry apologized for any offense or embarrassing he has caused. He realizes that it was a bad choice of costume." Indeed.

14
Naked pictures of Kate Middleton

Kate Middleton

French magazineCloser Revealing photos published who showed the Duchess of Cambridge Sunbathing Toothless by a swimming pool in September 2012. The photos were taken while she andPrince William were on vacation in Provence and published while the royal couple was on their diamond jubilee tour in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.

Kate was mortified and William was seeing direct parallels between this invasion of privacy and the way his mother was lifted by paparazzi during her life. The palace continued and a court in Nanterre, France ordered the tabloid to pay $ 120,000 of damages to the duchess, although the French counsel of the royal coupleVoil Originally requested 1.3 million sterling pounds on their behalf.

15
Prince Harry is naked in Las Vegas

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Harry was captured at the Naked Camera (but covering the jewelry of the family) while playing a strip-tease billiard game with Las Vegas stays at the Las Vegas in 2012. He addressed to the embarrassing episode. By saying "he dropped and his family."

This revealing incident occurred at a time when "The Spare" struggled to balance his position as a third online on the throne with his desire to have "normal life as possible". It's witnesses to the huge affection that the British public has always had for Harry that his wild festive means were all forgotten now that he is married toMeghan murder. Excuse us, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

16
Thomas Markle and the photographs staged

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The Bride du Prince HarryMeghan murder I have a taste of what life will be like living inside the royal fish when the story burst out that his father,Thomas Markle, had worked with the paparazzi to stage ridiculous photographs showing him to read a guide in Great Britain and watching online photos of his daughter and his fiance less than a week before being able to attend the royal wedding.

The plans for the great day were thrown into the chaos when Thomas admitted that Thomas was a simulacrum being a simulacrum and then told TMZ that he saved to walk Meghan in the driveway.

"We did not know what was going to happen next," saidCamilla, Cornwall Duchess,Asked by a television reporter after the marriage of the reaction of the royal family at the time.

The whole thing was even paler when Thomas then said that all this was somehow linked to a heart attack that he would have had the previous week and that the real reason he was not going to marriage was because He had a surgical procedure. Meghan was obliged to issue an unprecedented statement confirming his father would not be married. Instead of,Prince Charles Market his future daughter-in-law at the altar, she walked most of the solo driveway.

Diane Clehane is a journalist and author of New YorkImagine Diana andDiana: the secrets of his style.

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