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Top 5 Weirdest Royal Stories

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charlottedavidson Student Contributor, University of Exeter
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Exeter Contributor Student Contributor, University of Exeter
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Exeter chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

Our very own Prince Charming, (or Prince Harry, as he’s known formally) has recently caused quite a stir due to his pilgrimage to the popular chain restaurant “Nandos”. Newspapers managed to find out exactly what he ordered, (Lemon herb sauce on a chicken fillet with mash and cheese incase you’re interested) and the final bill (around ÂŁ24). Unusual as it is to see our royal family out of their natural habitat, this didn’t quite strike us all as ‘breaking news’. Definitely one of the stranger and potentially more mundane reports of the week.

However, after a quick google search it became apparent that this isn’t the weirdest royal story out there; here are a few more favourites


5) Kate and Wills baby tweeting

While Kate was going through her pregnancy, one newspaper, The Daily Mirror Online, reported that baby George was ‘tweeting’ from his mother’s womb. @RoyalFoetus tweeted after the announcement of the pregnancy, “HELLO WORLD: ALL SHALL KNEEL BEFORE ME” and multiple other accounts were set up for the little prince including, @unbornroyal and @iamroyalbaby.

4) Jack the Ripper

According to some people Jack the Ripper was a front to protect Prince Albert Victor, or Prince Eddy, who went mad after contracting syphilis. He had an illegitimate son with a shop girl and apparently she is the reason for the massacres. One version is that it was Prince Eddy himself who went on a killing spree as revenge for his disease but others argue that it was the doctor of the girl who treated her to death and then had to silence all her friends and relations.

 

3) Presidential Assassinations

In 1994 a pamphlet was published claiming that the British Royal family were behind all of the Presidential Assassinations through a jealousy of America’s success.

2) Mohammed Bloodline

Harold B. Brooks-Baker, an American-British journalist and publishers claims he is an expert in genealogy and has, supposedly traced the royal bloodline back to Mohammed through the Arab kings of Seville who ruled in Spain.

1) Royal Alien-Lizards

David Icke claims, wait for it, that the Royals are a reptilian race from the fourth dimension who live in underground earth caves and have created a false reality for us, a slave race bred by and for these alien-lizards. He also believes that the moon is a spaceship that these aliens use to control the minds of humans.

So really Prince Harry’s Nando story doesn’t really seem quite so absurd.

 

Photo credits:

http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article2460428.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Nandos-2460428.jpg

http://www.thejacktherippertour.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/4.jpg

http://i1.tribune.com.pk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Queen-640×480.jpg

 

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