Prince William, his marquise friend or how the royals shoot the bush in a matter of infidelities

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Anyone in the spotlight is exposed to scandal, real or imagined, simply because the world is watching.

The royals have it worse than most, because anyone with a cell phone is a potential paparazzo.

Prince William's image was chipped when his sister Harry portrayed him in his memoirs as

Now The Sun, Daily Mail and The Mirror - gossip - also suggest that he has been unfaithful.

With these things

in turning supposed horns into safe rackets.

There is a lot of hypocrisy in that sin refers above all to the flesh, as if there were not a licentiousness, a perversion of greater depth, in politics and money.

The poet Ovid saw the true perversion of the human race in haggling over one of the few pleasant things we have.

Neither he nor Leopardi, nor poets in general, could understand that love becomes a scandal.

The prince and his marquise friend

You may remember that

and Prince William separated for a while in 2007. The disagreement was due to William's flirtatious behavior in nightclubs, which Kate did not take well.

They patched things up and the rest is history until Rose Hanbury has turned up again.

The heir to the Crown would have spent Valentine's Day with her.

Rose Hanbury, who is related to the Prince of Wales.Gtres

For those less in the know: This former model and current Marquess of Cholmondeley (pronounced 'Chomley') is an old friend of the Windsors.

She was born into high society, her grandmother was a bridesmaid at Queen Elizabeth II's wedding, and she was a close friend of Kate Middleton until in 2019 'The Sun' spoke of a 'terrible fight' because Kate had come to see her neighbor Rose as

Married to David Cholmondeley,

her husband was one of the United Kingdom's golden bachelors and Lord High Chamberlain until last September.

It was a rushed wedding to which Rose arrived five months pregnant (she had twins).

Of course, the 'rural rival' does not mean that Rose is a palette, but rather the opposite: that she lives in Norfolk's Palladian Houghton Hall, near Anmer Hall, Kate and William's country estate.

people say things

Rumors of an affair between William and Rose have simmered since photos of the two in an affectionate attitude at a private party were published in 2019.

But

Sometimes stories are made up to sell newspapers or people say things that have a multiplier effect on the networks.

Although since the world is the world and princes are princes, many royal marriages have considered fidelity a secular debauchery to the detriment of other more friendly affective inventions, such as adultery.

Queen Elizabeth and Philip of Edinburgh.Getty

Early in his marriage to Queen Elizabeth,

felt rejuvenated on escapades with his dear friend Lady Penny or other 'special friends'.

The queen, like who hears rain.

Or so the closest courtiers said: 'Felipe has always had carte blanche to have fun.'

He began spending evenings with two other married men - they called themselves 'the three rookies' - in a London apartment where they entertained young actresses.

On the occasion of his invitation to visit the Australian city of Melbourne to open the 1956 Olympic Games, some nosy biographers point out that during a stopover in Melbourne he had an illegitimate child.

From the queen's tolerance he would have benefited from

and other women with whom he sailed on the 'Britannia' or took to Balmoral when the queen was away.

The series 'The Crown' delves into the legend and suggests, but does not confirm.

When questioned about the matter, Felipe gave a somewhat scathing but plausible response: "My God, I don't move anywhere without being followed by a policeman. How the hell could I get away with it?"

Anne and the Wales

In other centuries, marriage between royals was a treat blessed by the Church, but far removed from romantic ideals.

It had little to do with love, but rather with diplomacy or heritage, which is why kings' extramarital affairs were as normal and tolerated as having dessert.

's first marriage

was doomed from every angle.

While they were married, Ana and Mark Phillips cheated on each other.

He had an illegitimate daughter (Felicity, born August 1985) with New Zealander Heather Tonkin and she cheated on Mark with the Queen's aide

When their love letters came to light, Ana and Mark divorced and she married Timothy.

Princess Anne and her second husband, Timothy Laurence.Getty

Carlos's thing with Camila had not one but several forceful responses.

As where they take, Lady Di also resorted to cheating as revealed by

the matter of recording a call in which the princess revealed her concern about getting pregnant by someone other than her husband.

'Squidgy' ('soft') was the affectionate name with which James Gilbey referred to the princess.

According to her own confession, the Princess of Wales had another affair with

who has been said and said that he could be the biological father of Prince Harry.

Hewitt denies it in 'Love and War' ('Love and war'), the book in which he tells his love story.

James Hewitt was related to Lady Di.Getty

Fergie and Daisy

The marriage of Prince Andrew and Sarah 'Fergie' Ferguson ended in 1996 because of photos published in the 'Daily Mirror' which, among other adult images, showed Texan millionaire John Bryan sucking the toes

the Duchess of York.

Fergie confessed to the four winds that she had been tested for AIDS three times and that she had spent whole nights awake, fearful of having the virus due to her unprotected circumstances.

Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.Getty

Even Elizabeth II had to put up with hints about the size of her friendship with

aka 'Porchey', the trainer of her horses and according to some something more than that.

After the broadcast of 'The Crown', which reflected the Queen's affection for her equerry, historian Kate Williams broke a spear for Elizabeth II: 'The queen was very close to Lord Porchester, but they were no more than good friends who shared a love of horses'.

Another thing was his sister Margarita.

In 'Ma'am Darling', her biographer Craig Brown gives an account of her lavish lifestyle.

As she might imagine of a princess, she never wore her clothes more than once before taking them to dye.

Her scandalous social life enjoyed general indulgence.

Already married to photographer

the paparazzi hunted her down with her then lover on the Caribbean island of Mustique.

It was 23-year-old landscape gardener Roddy Llewellyn (17 years younger than her).

Less documented were her alleged messes with Mick Jagger, although a courtier assured that "definitely, there was something."

Monaco and the 'cursed' family

At the Hermitage Hotel in Monte Carlo I heard a certain legend about the Monegasque prince Rainier I, who reigned in the 13th century.

He kidnapped a maiden, raped her, and when he abandoned her she cursed: 'No Grimaldi will be happy in her marriage.'

The spell, apparently, woven the inconsolable fate of the lineage, which reached

when, three months after her wedding, she learned that her husband had not renounced the joys of other beds.

To add water to the vinegar of disappointment, she paid Rainier in kind:

added to the bet legion of gentlemen surrendered to her luminous charm.

Sinatra lasted him for years;

David Niven, all his life.

Grace Kelly and Marlon Brandon on Oscar night in 1954, when they both won statuettes.Getty

Princess Caroline inherited that olive brown hue from

who was born in Algeria and was the illegitimate daughter of Prince Louis II Grimaldi with cabaret singer Marie Juliette Louvet.

As the adulterer had no children with her legitimate wife, the actress Ghislaine Dommanget, recognized Charlotte and married her to the Prince de Polignac to continue the dynasty.

There was no love, and if there was, it didn't last at all, as in an echo of the spell of the medieval maiden.

Tale and horned princesses

John Glatt recounts in 'The Royal House of Monaco' that, in order to dilute her husband's lineage of pirates, Princess Grace became obsessed with marrying her eldest daughter to the young Ernest Augustus, a thoroughbred descendant of George III of England

the Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

Grace failed as a matchmaker, but her life goes rounder than a merry-go-round.

When she was widowed by her second husband, Stefano Casiraghi - still recovering from the alopecia caused by post-traumatic stress - she began her affair with the German prince, who was married to Chantal Hochuli, one of Carolina's best friends.

At the beginning of 1996, at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok,

The disconsolate Chantal found it impossible to hold on to it, it was like catching a bird doped with helium.

Caroline of Monaco with her third husband, Ernest of Hannover.Getty

They got married in 1999 and 10 years later, while she was skiing with her children at the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana, 'Paris-Match' showed her husband snogging in the hot Thai waters of Freedom Beach, in Phuket, with a

Carolina gave her a door, but not her divorce and 14 years later she is still princess of Hannover.

The Monegasque curse reached

Before her wedding, the South African swimmer already knew - like everyone else - that her husband was the father of two illegitimate children.

What she didn't know yet is that, according to the 'Daily Mail', during their five-year courtship she had another daughter with an Italian mistress.

Other cuts, other messes

What is not in the writings has been written about the lax customs of the Bourbons and their hobbies, beginning with Fernando VII and ending with Queen Sofía's husband, in whose Greek family they were not deprived either.

His grandfather Constantine I of Greece had an affair of luxury and adultery with

Also in Italy King Victor Emmanuel II was known as 'Il Re Galantuomo', due to the abundance of his adventures and his collection of illegitimate children.

It is not that the Mediterranean throws the mountain, it is that the horns, like Putin and other birds, know no borders: there are King

forced by the courts to recognize an extramarital daughter, or the dalliances of King

Other times

The list of the great champions of infidelity is enough for a book as big as Petete.

had no less than 14 bastards with his long list of lovers.

From them descends the cream of the current British nobility.

Edward

was called Bertie the Caresser (the Caresser).

His love affair with the actress Lilly Langtry and the Countess of Warwick brought out the colors of the prudish Victorian England.

He was abducted by the socialite

the great-grandmother of the current queen consort Camilla, and although he was twice her age, they were lovers until Edward's death in 1910. Alexandra of Denmark, the queen consort, tolerated Alice well enough to send her a letter of comfort when her husband fell ill with typhus and allow her to see the king on his deathbed.

With Archduke Rudolf, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he frequented the Chabanais in Paris

with some thirty rooms whose decoration covered the geography of the world.

Eduardo, a regular at the Hindu, had the bathtub filled with champagne before getting into it in the company of three ladies.

Rodolfo,

the son of Sissi of Bavaria, already married to Princess Stephanie of Belgium, drowned his anguish in alcohol, morphine and many women, not always countesses and not always hygienic.

He died in obscure circumstances in the Mayerling hunting lodge along with his teenage lover

In Germany, that great lover of classical Greece,

and also lost his throne.

Now, when they shoot into the bush, the royals win covers.

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