Infidelities, sexual harassment allegations, Lady Di’s death… via the Queen Elizabeth family

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Ruling the world after the Second World War or in the midst of Brexit was not the only challenge Queen Elizabeth had to face during her 70-plus-year reign. The monarch had to face his own difficulties within his family.from the scandal of her husband’s infidelities to the most recent: The involvement of Megxit and her son, who divided her family into two Favorite in the international sexual exploitation plan most media in the last 20 years. Also directly affected He is skeptical of his investments in offshore funds because his name was mentioned in the Paradise Papers after the Duchy of Lancaster invested $7.5 million in a fund in the Cayman Islands.

He was also the first ruler in history to have to face it. a closer examination of his private life by the public. The mass media were born in the first bars of his reign, and the British royal house, a worldwide example, was one of the first to decide to open its doors to television. His first glimpse into his world was watched by more than 30 million people on television, and since then no one has been able to get away from what’s going on around him.

THE DUCE OF Edinburgh: A DISCUSSION THAT NEVER ENDED

Moreover, the first scandal she had to face was one that shook the foundations of her most cherished relationship: the scandal she had with the man she had been married to for 74 years.

Although her marriage to the Duke of Edinburgh has stabilized over the years, neither the British public nor the media have fully accepted her decision about her husband. The couple, who had a hard time even before they got married, She had her own crisis when Prince Philip’s infidelities were exposed..

Among the infidelities known to the duke, who died at the age of 99 in 2021, was Daphne du Maurier, for example, a novelist “emotionally close” but presumed not in a sexual relationship. The royal wedding, as it was remembered, might even be in danger, she.

1992, THE TERRIBLE YEAR OF THE BRITISH MONARCH

Love, monarchy, and scandals were concepts that shook hands throughout the seventy years of his reign, although 1992 was the key year for failure. That year, princess mother and princes Carlos Y Andrew decided to divorce or separate from partnersand each did a different damage to the royal house.

Ana’s departure, for example, reminded everyone of the infidelities that the queen had to endure. Both her daughter and husband, Captain Mark Phillips, cheated on each other, but it was the latter who went so far as to have an illegitimate daughter with an art teacher she had an affair with.

The nature of this separation upset Buckingham Palace, but it was Carlos and Andrés’s that shook the foundations of the institution the most. In the case of Sarah Ferguson, ex-wife of the Duke of York, the separation was so amicable that she is still an active part of the family even today, but her figure has become so internationally recognized that the failure of the relationship has been understandable. as a big blow.

But definitely The biggest mistake of the institution in those years was the treatment received by the hospital. Princess DianaBoth during his time at Buckingham and after leaving the family. For the first time since her reign, Elizabeth had to compete with another figure in the royal household who threatened to eclipse her own popularity.

The public visit the fountain in memory of Lady Di in London’s Hyde Park. EFE

Lady Di’s death

this The tension arising from the departure of the heir to the throne increased even more with the influx of British tabloids.He clung to the story to the point that there was an almost constant manhunt for Princess Diana, as her children would admit years later. Prince Harry and William’s mother died in a car accident in 1996; it is a tragedy that exacerbates the image crisis that has gripped the institution under the presidency of Queen Elizabeth.

It took many years and good pressure from the monarch to regain the lost popularity.. Previously pardoned for being late to tragic events like the Aberfan tragedy, the queen was heavily criticized for the lack of public attendance at a televised funeral that was watched by 2.5 billion people. For staying in Balmoral and not offering public condolences until five days after his death.

Epstein Relationship

Reuniting with the public in this sense would not occur until five years later, when, with the death of his sister and mother in 2002, he was again torn from the cold and dehumanized image that had been conveyed to him so many times. . But just in those years, so-called, sShe has forged a close relationship between her favorite son, Prince Andrew, and the billionaire. Jeffrey EpsteinHe is responsible for one of the most significant cases of international sexual abuse in recent decades, according to the US justice system. To this day, the case continues to torment the royal house, and it was the queen herself who was forced to remove the Duke of York from public duties within the institution.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. EFE

Megxit, one last big blow

If Andrés is his favorite son, Harry was, without a doubt, the grandson that caught his eye the most. The feeling was mutual, but that didn’t stop Princess Diana and King Charles’s youngest son from ruining his relationship with the British royal house after marrying actress Meghan Markle.

The world was once again tense as a new internal crisis in the royal family was unfolded, but the most sensitive moment came from the couple’s decision to air an interview that was particularly damaging to the royal house right now by the Duke. Edinburgh lived his last hours.

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