royal scandal
Monarchy's public disgrace
A royal scandal is a controversy involving members of a royal family—affairs, financial improprieties, abdications, or public embarrassments that damage the monarchy's image.
The term implies both the high status of those involved and the breach of expected decorum: The tabloids couldn't get enough of the royal scandal.
Such scandals carry extra weight because royals are supposed to embody national dignity.
- abdicationFormal surrender of power
- infidelityDisloyalty to a partner
- paparazziAggressive celebrity photographers
- regicideMurdering a monarch
- succession crisisContested leadership transfer
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- forbidden loveforbidden love, forbidden romance, illicit love, secret love, forbidden fruit
- royal abdicationforced abdication, Edward VIII
- British Royaltyking, queen, prince, princess, crown
- Royal Palacethrone room, coronation, monarch, crown jewels, scepter
- court intrigueintrigue, plots, schemes, plotting, conspiracy
- royal biographies
royal scandalroyal wedding
Sovereign's marriage celebration
coronation · state occasion · royal christening · jubilee · trooping the colour