for a family that lives its life on public display the royals have an uncanny knack for
getting embroiled in scandal and intrigue some of this plays out publicly but some
of it seems to be hidden away in some rather dark places every family has their secrets
but not every family ruled over nations and still enjoys massive wealth and influence
number 10. edward viii was friends with hitler it's estimated that about 107 billion people have
ever existed in the entire history of humankind if you were tasked with making a list of the top
three worst to ever be friends with it's safe to say that adolf hitler would be right up there so
the fact that edward viii was palsy with the leader of the third reich is the sort of thing
that no one in the royal family really wants to be reminded of though edward abdicated the
throne to marry an american there was a period where he seemed to really enjoy a friendship
with hitler documents indicate that it may have gone further than that including a potential
attempt to overthrow the monarchy edward was a fan of hitler's economic policies and combined
with some of his own anti-semitic beliefs the nazi party held great appeal it didn't hurt that hitler
was keenly aware of how valuable a friend in the british royal family would be so he set about
charming the man as much as he could it was alleged that edward's american wife
wallace simpson had also long had an affair with a high-ranking nazi british intelligence had her and
edward under surveillance because of the potential to be leaking secrets papers discovered after
the war indicated the germans even had a plan to reinstate edward on the throne a clear sign that
the nazi party supported him as a favorable face in england 9. diana attempted suicide numerous
times in recent years the royal family and issues of mental health have come to the forefront in
the news but of course these are not new things they were just mostly kept hidden from the public
over the years the stress and demands of being a royal can take their toll especially for those who
married into the family and were not brought up to expect the same level of scrutiny and obligation
that the family are accustomed to meghan markle has dealt with it recently but princess diana had
to endure it as well and she did not endure it well andrew morton wrote a book entitled diana
her true story back in the 1990s he alleged diner had tried to take her life several times and in
gruesome ways as well she tried to cut her own wrists and throw herself downstairs among others
at the time this was all considered a hearsay the allegations of an author trying to sell books some
believed them to be true and some not but years later tapes of her speaking on this topic came
to light confirming that she was truly miserable and had attempted to end her own life number eight
they may not have a legit claim to the throne historically speaking having a claim to the throne
has been a big deal wars have been fought over who has the most right to rule today it may be less
significant to everyday people but rest assured it's still a big deal to the royal family if they
were not the legitimate heirs to the throne for some reason then they'd be just regular folk who'd
have to go and find a house to rent somewhere by and large no one questions the legitimacy of the
royal family but there has been some potential for disruption thanks to dna analysis of a
body found in a parking lot as it happens king richard iii died in 1485 struck down in battle
his body was laid to rest at greyfriar's abbey but a lot could happen in over 500 years and the abbey
along with the king were more or less forgotten so much so that his grave ended up being under an
office building's parking lot other bodies have been discovered over the years on the property
and it was known to have once been the site of the abbey when the king's body was excavated
dna analysis was run to confirm the identity of the remains and it turned out to be richard
but there was a twist the y chromosomes in the dna analysis don't match others in the wrong line the
maternal line was used to identify the remains of richard but if the y chromosome passed down from
the male side doesn't match it means somewhere in the family line there may have been an affair
someone at some time gave birth to a child not of the royal line and maybe just fudged the details
to pretend the child was legit heck i mean maybe they didn't even know because we can't know when
this affair may have occurred there's no way to know when it affected the family line so maybe
the current roles are the real deal or maybe they aren't 7. prince john was hidden from the public
any family in the spotlight is concerned with optics celebrities like the kardashians have this
down to a science carefully crafting every message and every image that makes it into the public eye
but the royal family was arguably one of the progenitors of this method of public relations and
not always for the better their method of being a public entity also included keeping secrets that
were more than just scandals it meant keeping people secret too like prince john the royal
family has always tried to present the image of strength any family members who didn't meet their
definition of that would be considered a liability and such was the case with the queen's uncle john
after his birth in 1905 it was determined that john had some serious health concerns he may
have been on the autism spectrum and he also had a seizure disorder the royal family a member who
could not project the desired image in public was problematic john was never sent to formal
school like his siblings had been and though he made public appearances in the early years of
his life they were fleeting he didn't even attend the coronation of his own father the boy was said
to have been disruptive and insubordinate to things no royal should ever be especially in
the presence of others after the age of eight the family did not include him in any royal portraits
when his health took a turn in 1916 he was sent away to live with the governess he spent little
time with his family after that date his parents were said to be busy with official duties after
the start of world war one his siblings were kept away to spare them from worrying about his
condition he died in his sleep after a seizure in 1919 6. prince charles is related to dracula
every so often the ruling class get compared to vampires but the habit of living off the people
over whom they rule sucking the life out of them as it were so there were likely a few critics of
the royal family and prince charles in particular who would be delighted to discover that the
prince is literally related to dracula in real life bram stoker is believed to have based his
famous vampire in part on vlad tepec 15th century romanian prince vlad himself earned the nickname
impaler due to his penchant for sticking enemies on sharp poles so the story goes
his bloodlust was legendary enough to make him forever associated with history's greatest vampire
boss ward to the present and prince charles is a distant relative of the romanian prince he's
dracula's great grandson 16 times removed prince charles is apparently very stoked to learn this
bit of genealogy and has long had a soft spot for transylvania the region made famous by dracula
5. a royal was suspected of being jack the ripper one of the greatest mysteries of the 19th century
was the infamous case of jack the ripper one of history's most notorious killers his identity was
never determined and even to this day over a century later people are trying to piece
it together back in the day there were no end of potential suspect and one of them was that prince
albert victor was the ripper the prince was no stranger to slanderous accusations he was labeled
as unintelligent and incompetent though mostly harmless at first the grandson of the queen had
a connection to a man arrested at a male brothel in london which was considered political poison
at the time homosexuality was not just frowned upon it was illegal that the prince knew a man
involved in such a thing even with no evidence that anything happened between them was enough
to get rumors flying years later it was suggested that perhaps the prince had contracted syphilis
from a prostitute and with the disease infecting his brain he started killing prostitutes out of
revenge another theory was that the british royal family wanted a specific woman killed because
they knew the prince had an illegitimate son neither of these theories had much of any
evidence to support it and they appeared nearly a century after the fact the result is that it's
very unlikely but still something the royal family is not likely to ever openly address and would
just rather keep on the down low number four a man may have killed his wife for elizabeth the first
royalty having extramarital affairs isn't exactly breaking news many royals have been
saddled with that scandal over the years it happened so often they have to wonder why
it's considered a scandal at all but that said sometimes the full story is more scandalous than
just two people having an affair that was the case of elizabeth the first and her suspected lover
robert dudley dudley was the earl of leicester and was known to be very close to the queen that was
enough to set the rumor mill in motion but there was more to it than that dudley was also married
and his wife died under mysterious circumstances had the earl not been married he could have
married the queen easily enough but having a wife who fell down the stairs quite unexpectedly made
things look extremely fishy his wife was found at the bottom of some stairs and suicide was
at least suspected however the circumstances around the death didn't at all make sense and
murder seemed a possible explanation as well whether he did or did not have his wife killed
dudley was in no position to have a relationship with the queen afterwards the optics were too poor
when he did remarry 18 years later the queen forbade the woman from ever coming to court 3.
the duke of kent may have been assassinated prince george was a black sheep of the royal family these
days people make a fuss over the royals for doing some fairly mundane things back in the 1930s and
40s george was making waves for allegedly abusing cocaine and heroin on a regular basis he was also
alleged to have had a number of affairs with both men and women at that time but that family
especially this was absolutely unacceptable in 1942 the prince was tasked with a military mission
he was supposed to head to iceland to inspect some air force units stationed there an official
in the royal air force himself this was not unusual in any way and the mission was about as
run-of-the-mill as it could get george was to fly in a sunderland mark iii to iceland from chromatic
firth in scotland the sunderland was a beefy plane that was meant to fly over water and not land
thanks to its underpowered engine this was not a problem because the trip was mostly over water
until it wasn't for unknown reasons the flight diverted from its established flight path instead
of hugging the coast and traveling to iceland it proceeded over land it was speculated the prince
himself may have taken control as a joke to buzz the estate of his cousin this was never confirmed
though the plane was flying over the highlands and the weather was poor the plane underpowered as it
was could not reach a safe height either witnesses in the highlands reported hearing the sound of the
plane's engines just before it crashed face first into the mountains it was loaded with thousands of
gallons of fuel so it exploded speculation has existed since the crash itself that the royal
family planned it as a way to get rid of the troublesome duke all evidence and an inquiry
that followed up with the crash has apparently been lost so the precise details are unknown with
so many conspiracy theories the truth is likely to be muddy at best number two they travel with
their own blood some celebrities are known for being og is on the road most people have seen the
riders that musicians place on venues sometimes requests for creature comforts that can make
them seem like divas what they should be doing is traveling like the royal family who bring their
important things with them like bags of blood in case of emergencies queen elizabeth as well
as prince charles and william travel with a sack of their own blood on hand this is according to
royal expert duncan larkom the royals travel with their physician and a bag at their own home brew
in case a transfusion is needed for a good portion of her busier years the queen was making about one
state visit per year but prince william was a bit more widely traveled blood only has a shelf life
of about 42 days after it's been bagged up so they were probably getting fresh stuff before each and
every trip 1. queen victoria hated being a mother they say motherhood is a thankless job and being
a mum is hard work so maybe it's no surprise that someone raised and actually do work on their own
would say an ugly baby is a very nasty object this was queen victoria's opinion on children
and not exactly a resounding endorsement for her maternal instincts despite having nine children
the queen was apparently not a fan of the idea of them at all and once said that she would
rather have none she described being pregnant as being like a dog or a cow and was staunchly
opposed the very idea of breastfeeding later when her daughters performed the act she said it made
her hair stand on end and that her daughters had turned into cows so she clearly would have
been a riot on mother's day after her second child victoria all but ignored her remaining
children she spoke once of checking in on them personally once every three months or so instead
prince albert their father took a much more active role in their parenting which was unusual not just
for the royals but for any man of that time period though it's clear she did have some affection for
her children especially when they were older she was certainly not a typical mom by any means she
was also prone to childishness herself choosing to give her younger daughter the silent treatment
from may to november of the same year that she found out that daughter was getting married in
her own defense the queen once wrote that it was not as if she was not fond of children she just
didn't like the noise they made so i really hope you found that video interesting if you did please
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