Ran off with an acrobat: 7 high-profile sex scandals in the royal families of different countries

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The Duke of Kent (1902–1942) was married to Marina, Princess of Greece and Denmark. However, he was neither a faithful servant of the crown nor a good husband: stories about his bisexual adventures constantly leaked to the press. So he was in contact with the playwright Noel Coward and the singer Jessie Matthews, and also used cocaine and morphine.

On August 25, 1942, he died in a plane crash that crashed into the rocks. The reason is still unknown: either he was under the influence of illegal drugs, or the plane had problems climbing.

A Cambodian prince was convicted of adultery in 2006. The country has a monogamy law so he almost went to jail. But it turned out that his marriage was not officially registered, so he escaped punishment and soon married his lover, the dancer Oak Phalla.

Queen Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) was one of the 14 wives of King Mswati III. In 2011, she was caught cheating with Justice Minister Ndumisa Mamba. They were arrested and imprisoned, but then allowed to leave the country. By the way, in 2004, two wives of this king immediately flew out of Africa due to rumors of treason.

Curiously, in Eswatini there was a law for several years that said girls were not allowed to have sex until they were 21 years old. A king who chose one of his minor wives punished himself by giving the state… a cow!

A biography of the Swedish monarch, published in 2010, says that he frequents strip clubs and has sex with various women for money and gifts. The king chose the tactic of ignoring and did not comment on these statements, as did his wife Silvia Renata.

The Belgian monarch denied for many years that he was the father of the artist Delphine Boel (1968), and only in January 2020 did he acknowledge paternity. Delphine’s mother is the Belgian baroness Sibil de Celis. In addition to her, the king has three more children born in marriage with Paola Margarita.

The youngest daughter of Prince Rainier III of Monaco and actress Grace Kelly became famous for many novels. For example, she gave birth to two children and married her own bodyguard – and divorced a year later when she caught him cheating.

She then started dating an elephant trainer and forced her three children to live in a traveling circus. And then she left the coach for the acrobat Adana Lopez Perez, with whom she also lived in marriage for only a year.

The Malaysian prince married 16-year-old Indonesian model Manohara Odelia Pino in 2008. Two months later, she returned to her mother, but the prince tricked her into flying back to Malaysia. Two months later, she managed to escape from him in Singapore. The girl said that she was held by force in the palace, given drugs and forced to have sex.

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