Beyond King Carlos III’s Tampax: We take a look at the royals’ sex scandals

As the youngest daughter of Rainier III and Grace of Monaco, she has always lived a very different life than she should as a member of the royal family. Estefanía and her bodyguard, Daniel Ducruet, fell madly in love when they toured together for the album the royal had released. When their romance came to light, Ducruet was expecting a baby with his girlfriend, who was six months pregnant. Rainier threatened to punish the couple if they got married, but they decided to stay together and had two children out of wedlock. Although it seems like an unusual romance, the truth is that the bodyguard was unfaithful several times, but the royal family wanted to fight for their relationship and her father finally let it end in a wedding. A year later, Estefanía filed for divorce after some images were published of her husband having sex with Fili Houtman.

The fifth and final queen of the Tudor dynasty, she was nicknamed the Virgin after remaining single by choice. There was much speculation about her sexual orientation, but that nickname was the opposite of the life the monarch actually led. He had many lovers, most of them ordinary people., among whom was Tomas Seymour, whom she beheaded for plotting against her. She also flirted with married men like Robert Dudley or Walter Raleigh. His great love was eventually also beheaded, it was Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, whom he had beheaded for conspiracy.

The sixth King of the Belgians passed through the altar with Princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria, with whom he had three children. During the marriage, both committed infidelity repeatedly. Paola was hunted on a beach in Sardinia with Count Abert Adrient de Munt, while her husband enjoyed the company of the Memphis model or actress Elizabeth Dolac. Although the most infamous story was the one between the monarch and Baroness Sybille de Selys Longchamps, publicly admitted in 1999. After his abdication, he was tried for the recognition of an alleged illegitimate daughter he had with his lover. The judge dismissed the lawsuit and Alberto and Paola continued their marriage.

The love triangle of Carlos, Diana and Camila still arouses some resentment among many Britons. Lady Di was much loved by the English people and the infidelity of the then Prince Carlos with Camila was much disapproved of. The extra-marital romance was known to everyone, but the scandal came after a phone conversation between the lovebirds was leaked. “God, I want to touch you everywhere, from top to bottom. God, I wish I lived in your pants, it would be so much easier,’ you hear the royal say, and Camila asks him, ‘What are you going to be? In panties?”, to which the king laughs: “Or, God forbid, in a Tampax. How lucky I am!”.

At just 14 years old, she married Louis XVI, 15, thus becoming queen consort of France and Navarre. They were not consumed until seven years after the wedding due to a deformity in the monarch’s genitals. Marie Antoinette did not hesitate for a moment and surrounded herself with a group of young people of both sexes with whom she organized parties. In these meetings it was common having sex and serving drinks in cups shaped like the queen’s breasts. The royal family deserved a very bad reputation for situations like this.