Quitting the royal family, moving to Southern California, andpublishing an eponymous tell-allis quite another.
But what about the royal acts of rebellion no one talks about anymore?
You know, the ones long forgotten or swept under the rug.
Or those that with the passage of time just don’t seem all that eyebrow-raising nowadays.
But that’s not how things went down when Prince Consort Albert died in 1861 at age 42.
Is it any wonder that under the queen’s influence, Victorians became infatuated with death?
She even blamed the death of Prince Albert on Bertie’s womanizing.
Bertie did not quit his cavorting then, or likely ever.
And Victoria never fully forgave him.
Then she up and married the heir to the Russian empire, Tsesaravich Nicholas.
Still, Charles eventually rebelled by picking back up with Camilla after he and Diana married.
But her status as such was, by definition, precarious as a result of male primogeniture.
She abolished male primogeniture in the royal order of succession.
It took some getting used to by the then-Princess Elizabeth, who would one day become queen.
She smoked in public something a future queen could not then do.
Among his tamer bon mots, Philip declared Beijing “ghastly” while on a royal engagement in China.
More classicPhilip-isms can be found here.
And it was true.
But only after his marriage had deteriorated irretrievably, he added.
Prince Edward joined the Royal Marines in 1986, soon after he graduated with an undergraduate degree from Cambridge.
He committed to a 12-month officer training program.
Nor did it go over well with his father.
Prince Philip achieved high ranks in both the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.
The LA Times noted that Philip made a valiant attempt to get Edward to change his mind.
It began in 2005.
But that doesn’t mean William has never engaged in his share of royal rebellion.
Of course, she wasn’t yet a royal back then.
In fact, she and William were not even dating, although things changed rapidly after that evening.
