Royal Family News: Four WILD Scandals That Rocked The Monarchy

British royal family news reveals that despite all of the rules and protocols in place, the House of Windsor has had its share of scandal. Read on to discover who did what and when that led to raised eyebrows!

Royal Family News: Prince Harry

Before he became a royal runaway, Prince Harry was a rebellious, but somewhat beloved, member of the royal family. He explored some of his hijinks in his memoir Spare, which dropped in January.

Harry’s antics included photos of him playing strip poker in Las Vegas in 2012. What happens when you play strip-anything?

That’s right, the clothes come off and apparently Harry is lousy at cards because the pics of the Vegas event showed Harry full on naked and running around without a care in the world.

Prior to that, in 2004, Harry allegedly had a physical altercation with the paparazzi. He was also accused of wearing a Nazi uniform and more recently he has trashed his family without remorse. He also went to rehab–for one-day–in 2002.

Royal Family News: The Princesses’ Royal

In 1945 Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret celebrated the Allies winning World War II by partying with the “commoners.” Elizabeth was 19, and her sister Margaret, was 14, but they were still allowed into the Ritz where they conga danced before coming home at 1 in the morning. According to FamilyMinded, back then “mingling and dancing with commoners was absolutely wild.”

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Royal Family News: Prince Andrew’s Girlfriend

In 1992 Prince Andrew engaged in a ritual bachelors and bachelorettes the world over practice—bringing their SO home to meet mom. Except that in this case his mom was the Queen of England and his date was Kathleen “Koo” Stark. She was American and a “soft-core adult movie star actress.” Enough said.

Royal Family News: Buckingham Palace’s Security

This next scandal involves Buckingham Palace security, or better said, the lack of. In the early 1980s, a man named Michael Fagan tested the palace security and it came up lacking. He allegedly broke in on two occasions and actually made it into Queen Elizabeth’s bedroom. The thought of the queen’s serenity being breached brought outrage from the public and security was beefed up after that. Thankfully no harm came to the queen!

Today scandal is most likely to come from Prince Harry and Prince Andrew, showing that some things never seem to change.

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