The british crown is once again in the sights of the world, now for the condemnation of 10 months in prison for sexual assault a Simon Bowes-Lyon, first third of the Queen isabel II.
Simon Bowes-Lyon, Earl of Strathmore, admitted news assaulted in his bedroom of his Glamis Castle to a woman. I know pleaded guilty and “very ashamed of my actions, which have caused so much sorrow to a guest in my house,” said the member of the monarchy.
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“I did not believe that I was capable of behaving as I did, but I have to accept it and take responsibility,” he said after being condemned in Dundee Regional Court to 10 months in prison.
The Glamis Castle, in the center of Scotland, it is the place where lived during his childhood the mother from Queen isabel II, born as Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
But this is only the most recent of the scandals who have put the british crown. Since abdications until tragic deaths they have marked the english monarchy. These are some of the reasons why reina and his family they have been the center of world attention.
They want a life away from royalty
The prince harry and his wife Meghan Markle announced on January 8, 2020 their resignation at real functions. The couple expressed their desire to be financially independent and move to North America, where they currently live with their first hijo Archie and waiting for your second baby.
After one year the Buckingham Palace announced that Harry and Meghan would not return to their royal functions in a definitive way, so the noble titles who possessed would return to reina so that she could bestow them on someone else family.
Prince Andrew linked to pedophilia case
The British royal house reported, in early 2021, that the prince Andrew of England was left pulled apart from official palace life, this due to the link he had with the pedophile Y sex exploiter Jeffy Epstein. Testimonials and documents they check that he child of the Queen Isabel II had one friendship with Epstein, although it is still to be confirmed if the member of the monarchy participated in the orgies organized by the pedophile.
The testimony of a woman American claimed it was forced to hold sexual intercourse with the prince Andrew when she was younger and he was under the yoke of Epstein. After various unfortunate statements, the universities and companies that collaborated with Andrés preferred not to do so. The prince retired from public life.
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The death of Princess Diana
Thousands of stories have emerged around the death from Princess Diana of Wales, who died with his then sentimental partner, Dodi Al-Fayet, in a tragic accident car in 1997 when she was chased by the paparazzi in Paris.
The reina received strong critics for his lack of compassion and sensitivity since while the population mourned the princess, who had already divorced of Prince carlos, she did not give any speech or message until the eve of the funeral.
Mental handicap
In 1987 the tabloid The Sun published an investigation that claimed that two cousins sisters of the Queen isabel II they had been hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in secret. It was about the sisters Katherine Y Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, aged 15 and 22 respectively, who suffered from Mental retardation and they were hidden so as not to put in doubt the intellectual capacities of the monarchy.
According to the English newspaper, the family reported the death of the sisters in 1963 even though both they were still alive.
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Abdicate for love
The King Edward VIII I quit to the throne in 1936, after 326 days of reign, to be able to join in marriage with a commoner of American origin, Wallis Simpson, who already had two divorces. The Anglican Church, of which Eduardo was head, rejected this union for what the king preferred abdicate.
The king George VI, father of the Queen isabel II, took the place in the throne, while Eduardo was repudiated for this decision.
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