People love to gossip, and gossip about someone famous travels wider and is remembered longer than gossip about your neighbors. Some bizarre and totally made-up stories about royalty find new life in print (see any tabloid), and the tales grow larger and stranger as they are passed along until idle gossip becomes a full-blown conspiracy theory. However, the term “conspiracy theory” has inched beyond its original meaning of a secret group engineering something that has a perfectly normal explanation. These stories are more like gossip, alleged scandals, and tall tales that just won’t go away.
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Any time a monarch dies, there will be rumors of murder. That happened when King William II died in a hunting accident in 1100, and again when James I died in 1625 after refusing the advice of his doctors. Illegitimate children are a favorite subject of gossip, because everyone likes to think of a hidden royal somewhere. We’ve all heard the rumor about Prince Albert Victor (pictured above), Queen Victoria’s grandson, being Jack the Ripper. And if you can believe it, Charles III is a vampire. Sure, he’s related to Vlad the Impaler, but so is all European royalty. Read up on ten stubborn conspiracy theories involving the British royal family at Mental Floss.
Source: neatorama