Biggest Scandals In "British Royal Family"

 When it comes to the royal family, the first name that comes to mind is Queen Elizabeth II of Britain and her successors and ancestors.

 This world has been ruled numerous king and Emperors in different times and era. All this kings and the king of the kings and royal families have been lost in the evolution of time.

But the British royal family has become a legend as it still survives in time. The burden of state governance may no longer be there. 

But that did not diminish the glory of the royal family. To give an example of a perfect royal family, the British royal family comes up again and again. 

The people of the world still consider this royal family as the ideal example of the monarchy. The most of the people in the world think about British Royal Family that-" they always say the right thing, wear what's fashionable, have control over their children, consort with good people, treat those less fortunate with compassion, resist the temptation that plague the rest of society and have fairy tale romance". 

But is our idea of them true at all? Do they really live happily ever after? In their past, the royals have been caught saying offensive things, succumbing temptation, forming relationships with questionable characters and even shunning their own family members over things beyond their control, many have had to face legal trouble Had to deal with.

But does that mean they are not the royal family? No, that's not the point. 

This means that this royal family also has some dark secrets that have been hidden from the common people for a long time. Today I will present to you "Top 12 biggest scandals” of the “British Royal Family” that will surprise you and change your old ideas about the royal family. 

Let's start. 

1.Two controvirtial relationships of Queen Victoria

The love story with Queen Victoria and her 2 servants is considered to be one of the most scandalous events in the history of the royal family.

According to historians, after the death of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's beloved husband, Queen Victoria became involved with a Scottish servant named “John Brown”. Their relationship was quite questionable.

The second controversial incident is the love story of Queen Victoria and her servant Abdul Karim. The relationship was so bitter that after the queen's death, her family members rushed to destroy all information about Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim.

2.Mary-The queen of Scots plots to assasinate Elizabeth 

Queen Elizabeth I of England and Queen Mary of Scots were two of the best legends recorded in history. Queen Mary ascended the Scots throne when she was only 158 days old.

 To strengthen her claim to the throne after the death of the childless Queen Elizabeth, Mary married her English cousin Lord Darnell in 1575, and Mary's husband died in an explosion in 158. Mary's alleged lover was blamed for the murder and was taken, prisoner.

Enraged at this incident, Mary launched a campaign against the aristocracy. But unfortunately, she was defeated and taken to Lochleven in Scotland. Mary escaped from captivity in 1568 and was given refuge by Queen Elizabeth.

But Mary was again placed under house arrest for plotting to overthrow Elizabeth. In 1586, 19 years after the incident, Mary again plotted to assassinate Elizabeth.

Queen Mary was sentenced to death for this crime and was beheaded on February 4, 1587, on charges of treason and conspiracy.

 

 3. King Edward V||| rejected the crown

King Edward VIII inherited the throne in 1938 after the death of his father. But he had to leave the throne less than a year later.

Because King Edward VIII fell in love with a divorced woman named “Wallis Simpson” and wanted to marry her. According to British law at the time, “a king cannot marry a woman who has been divorced twice. If he marries, he must relinquish his throne and his throne.”

So naturally, this love was against social, political, and religious principles. There were two ways before King Edward VIII; Either leave the throne and marry Simpson or marry Simpson and leave the throne.

Edward and Simpson were married in 1936 and lived together until Edward's death in 1982.

4.The love between Princess Margaret and a married man

Captain Peter Townsend was a Royal Air Force officer. Who worked as a horseman.

He was basically a servant of the royal family. Captain Peter Townsend spent most of his day with Princess Margaret. It didn't take long for their intimacy to turn into love.

 In a very short time, they fell in love. The main problem in this relationship, however, was that Captain Peter Townsend was married.

In 1953, Townsend divorced his wife and proposed marriage to Margaret. But socially and religiously such marriages were forbidden in England. After all, Margaret's uncle Edward VIII had to leave the throne for a divorce.

When they ended the engagement in 1955, they decided to end the relationship. This separation between Captain Townsend and Princess Margaret was very painful which hurt the minds of the people at that time.

5.Divorce of Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong Jones

After parting ways with Captain Peter Townsend, Princess Margaret married a painter named Anthony Armstrong Jones. Their wedding was so royal that it was broadcast live on television.

This was the first royal wedding to be televised. Sadly, this splendid royal wedding did not last long.

Within a year the bitterness between Margaret and Anthony began. They had public quarrels and fights which made their relationship a subject of public ridicule.

Incidents of their own quarrelling in public, Margaret's long vacation without her husband, etc., were leading to a separation between them. Rumour has it that Margaret is in a relationship with someone 17 years younger than her.

The couple announced their separation in 1976, and in 1978 they officially ended their separation.

6.Princess Diana and her alleged lover

Princess Diana is said to be one of the most beautiful women in the British royal family. People still remember her for her fashion, hairstyle, makeup sense, etc. 

Even after severing ties with the royal family, people preferred to call her princess. Since becoming a member of the royal family, trouble has not left Diana behind. 

However, the scandal that made Diana's life miserable was the leaking of a phone conversation between Diana and her friend James Gilbey. In 1992, when Diana was Prince Charles' wife, a phone conversation between Diana and her friend was leaked where Princess Diana's friend James Gilbey called Diana “Darling” and “Squidgy” and asked her to kiss him. 

Diana later admitted this in an interview. But she denied her extramarital affair with Gilbay.

7. The same accident happened with Prince Charles

Long after Diana's phone conversation was leaked, Prince Charles was the victim of the same scandal.

Prince Charles had a girlfriend named Camilla Parker Boles. The idea is that this loving friendship between Charles and Diana caught the marital rift.

Charles and Camilla joked about turning Charles into a tampon to keep Camilla's trousers “inside” in a part of the phone conversation. This phone conversation made Charles and Diana's relationship so bitter that they decided to divorce.

The following year, Charles and Diana announced their separation and completed it.

8.Princess Diana and Martin Bashir

In 1995, Diana had an exclusive interview with journalist Martin Bashir, where she described the great stress of her life and her loss, the strained relationship with Charles, and her loneliness in the royal family.

He said he knew about Charles' relationship with Camilla. Diana admitted that her relationship with Charles was not good. Even Diana herself was in a love affair with her own riding instructor “James Hewitt”.

A few weeks after this interview, the queen herself filed for divorce from her son and daughter-in-law. The following year, Diana and Prince Charles officially announced their separation. Charles and Camilla were married in 2005 and are still together.

9. Princess Annie married a royal stuff

Princess Anne is the only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Annie was married in 1973 to Mark Phillips, an Olympic equestrian. But after being together for some time, unfortunately, the couple was never happy. They were so unhappy that popular British magazine “People” described the wedding as a “joyless evening”.

In 1989, A British newspaper received copies of some  letters by Annie. The letters were written to a British naval officer named “Timothy Lawrence”. Although the contents of the letters were never made public. The content of the letters was so “intimate” that they became a source of bitter criticism.

In 1992, Ann announced that she was divorcing her ex-husband Phillips and planning to marry Lawrence, and they are still together.

10.Sarah Fargue scandal

Sarah Ferguson, better known as “Fergie”, married Prince Andrew in 1986. But a scandal ended their married life.

 Six years after the marriage, Fergie's vacation with John Bryan, an American financial adviser, was captured on camera by the paparazzi. As seen in the picture, Fargue is lying half-naked and Brian is licking Fargue's legs.

In this case, the image of the royal family is in question. The incident sparked so much criticism that Fergie and Andrew decided to divorce. They separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996.

11. Prince Harry visited rehab

Princess Harry was quite lonely on her teens. He was always compared with  his older brother Prince William and was called “wild”.

This misbehaviour of everyone in the royal family towards Harry was gradually attracting Harry to drugs. To get rid of loneliness, Harry started taking drugs and started going to nightclubs regularly. 

Harry became so involved in drinking, smoking, and sex that Harry's father, Prince Charles, was forced to send him to rehab. 

12.Diana's mysterious death

The death of Princess Diana was one of the most talked-about events in the history of the royal family. On the night of August 31, 1997, Princess Diana and her boyfriend, Dodi Al-Fayed, were on their way to Dodi's house from the Ritz hotel in Paris.

 At around 12.15 am, the couple left the hotel in their black Mercedes limousine. So that the paparazzi could not take any pictures of the couple, a Range Rover goes to the 40 paparazzi waiting outside the hotel and informs them that Diana and her boyfriend are not here.

The paparazzi team split into several motorcycles and followed Mercedes. The driver was Henri Paul, Ritz's assistant defence chief. 

He was driving at 90mph to escape the paparazzi which was extremely dangerous. Paul was able to avoid most photographers.

 He collided head-on with several cars and motorcycles as he entered a bend in the entrance to an underpass under the Alma Bridge and lost control of the Paul Mercedes. Which resulted in a fatal accident.

The car hit a concrete post in the center divider and hit the roof of the car. 

Fayed and driver Henri Paul died instantly. Diana suffered a head injury and was bleeding from the chest. However, ambulance personnel rushed her to the hospital, but she died earlier.

All information here is based on Google, BBC and several other data sources.