Being a mom is hard labor, they say, and parenting is a thankless profession. An ugly baby is a really awful object, so perhaps it's not surprising that someone who was raised to never truly do work on their own would remark that. This was Queen Victoria's viewpoint on children, and it didn't exactly give her maternal instincts a warm recommendation.

The Queen, who had nine children, reportedly hated the notion of having kids and once claimed she would like to have none. She compared being pregnant to being like "a dog or a cow" and was adamantly opposed to breastfeeding. She later said that seeing her own girls conduct the behavior made her "hair stand on end" and that her daughters were "becoming into cows." She would have undoubtedly caused a commotion on Mother's Day.

Victoria essentially ignored her other children after having her second child. She once mentioned personally seeing them about every three months. Instead, their father, Prince Albert, was considerably more involved in raising them, which was unique not only for a prince but for any man at the time.

Despite the fact that it is obvious that she did care for her kids, especially as they got older, she was by no means your average mother. She was also prone to immature behavior herself, preferring to withhold any communication from her youngest daughter when she learned that she was getting married from May until November of the same year. The Queen once claimed that it wasn't that she didn't like kids; rather, she didn't like the noise they produced.

Reign: 20 June 1837 –22 January 1901
Coronation: 28 June 1838
Predecessor; William IV
Successor: Edward VII

Born: Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent24 May 1819Kensington Palace, London, England
Died: 22 January 1901 (aged 81)Osborne House, Isle of Wight, England

On the road, some superstars have a reputation for being ogres. Most people have witnessed the riders that performers occasionally add to venues, requests for luxuries that might make them appear diva-like. They ought to travel like the royal family, who always bring their most critical belongings—like blood bags—with them.

Queen Elizabeth, Princes Charles, and William all travel with a sack of their own blood on hand in case of emergencies. Duncan Larcombe, a Royal expert, says this. In case a transfusion is required, the Royals bring their doctor and a bag of homemade beer.

The Queen made around one state visit year during her busy years, while Prince William traveled more extensively. Since blood only has a 42-day shelf life after being bagged, they were likely purchasing new supplies before each and every journey.

The royal family's "black sheep" was Prince George. Nowadays, Royals get a lot of attention for accomplishing quite unremarkable things. George made headlines in the 1930s and 1940s for supposedly consuming cocaine and heroin frequently. Additionally, it was claimed that he had several affairs with both men and women. It was completely intolerable at the moment, especially for that family.

The Prince was assigned a military mission in 1942. He was tasked with traveling to Iceland to check out some air force installations there. Being a member of the Royal Air Force himself, this was not at all unusual, and the mission was as routine as they could make it. From Cromarty Firth in Scotland, George was scheduled to travel in a Sunderland Mk III to Iceland. The Sunderland was a big plane with a weak engine, designed for flying over water, not landing. Due to the majority of the journey being over water, this was not an issue. When it wasn't.

The flight deviated from its intended course for an unidentified reason. It traveled inland rather than hugging the coast and going to Iceland. It was rumored that the Prince himself may have taken over as a prank to stir up interest in his cousin's land. However, this was never verified.

Even with its inadequate power, the aircraft was unable to fly at a safe altitude. Before the plane crashed head-on into mountains, witnesses in the Highlands claimed to have heard the sound of its engines. It detonated after being loaded with thousands of litres of fuel.

Since the disaster itself, rumors have circulated that the Royal family plotted it as a means of getting rid of the problematic Duke. The exact specifics of the incident are unknown because all evidence and investigations that were conducted after the crash appear to have been lost. The reality is at best hazy in light of all the conspiracy ideas.

Born: Prince George of Wales20 December 1902York Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk, England
Died: 25 August 1942 (aged 39)Morven, Caithness, Scotland

Extramarital affairs among royalty aren't precisely recent events. Over the years, that controversy has burdened many Royals. Given how frequently it occurs, one has to question why it even qualifies as a scandal. Having said that, there are situations when the whole narrative is more scandalous than just two people having a relationship. Elizabeth I and her rumored lover Robert Dudley were involved in that situation.

The Earl of Leicester, Dudley, was reputed to be close to the Queen. There was more to it than that, but that was enough to start the rumor mill in motion. Dudley was also married, and his wife passed away inexplicably.

The Earl could have wed the Queen easily had he not already been married. But the fact that his wife had unexpectedly fallen down the stairs made everything seem quite suspicious. When his wife was discovered at the bottom of some stairs, suicide was at the very least a possibility. The facts surrounding the death didn't really make sense, though, and murder appeared to be another interpretation.

Dudley was ineligible to continue his relationship with the Queen whether he killed his wife or not. Too bad of optics was used. Eighteen years later, when he finally remarried, the Queen barred the new wife from ever appearing in court.

Reign: 17 November 1558 –24 March 1603
Coronation: 15 January 1559
Predecessors; Mary I and Philip
Successor: James I

Born: 7 September 1533Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, England
Died: 24 March 1603 (aged 69)Richmond Palace, Surrey, England

The infamous Jack the Ripper case was one of the 19th century's greatest mysteries. His identity was never established, and even now, more than a century later, people are still trying to piece together one of history's most notorious killers. There were plenty plausible suspects back then. That Prince Albert Victor was the Ripper was one of them.

The Prince had experienced false allegations before. He was initially considered to be generally harmless but was later called stupid and incompetent. He was the Queen's grandson and was connected to a man who was detained at a London male brothel, which was viewed as political poison at the time. Not only was homosexuality disapproved of, it was also forbidden. Even though there is no proof that anything transpired between them, the fact that the Prince knew a man who was involved in such a thing is enough to start rumors.

Years later, it was hypothesized that the Prince may have acquired syphilis from a prostitute; as the sickness spread throughout his brain, he began murdering prostitutes in retaliation. The British Royal family may have wanted some ladies slain because they were aware that the Prince had an illegitimate child, according to a different idea.

Both of these views emerged about a century after the occurrence, and neither had much evidence to back it up. As a result, it is incredibly unlikely, but even so, it is something the Royal family would want to avoid discussing in public.

Born: Prince Albert Victor of Wales8 January 1864Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Died: 14 January 1892 (aged 28)Sandringham House, Norfolk, England

The ruling class frequently receives comparisons to vampires because of their practice of feeding off those they have power over. In a sense, it was sucking the life out of them. So it seems to reason that some of Prince Charles' detractors, in particular, would be pleased to learn that the Prince is in fact connected to Dracula.

Vlad Tepes, a Romanian prince who lived in the 15th century, is thought to be the inspiration for some of Bram Stoker's famous vampire in real life. According to legend, Vlad's propensity for pinning adversaries to sharp poles earned him the moniker "Impaler." His voracity for blood made him indelibly linked to history's greatest vampire.

In the modern era, Prince Charles is the Romanian Prince's distant relative. 16 times removed, he is the great-grandson of Dracula. Prince Charles, who has a love spot for Transylvania, the region made famous by Dracula, was reportedly thrilled to learn this lineage.

Reign: 8 September 2022 – present
Predecessor: Elizabeth II
Heir apparent: William, Prince of Wales

Born: Prince Charles of Edinburgh14 November 1948 (age 74)Buckingham Palace, London, England

Any family in the public eye worries about optics. Celebrities like the Kardashians have this down to a science, meticulously constructing each message and each public image. But it's arguable that the Royal Family was one of the inventors of this strategy for public relations. Not necessarily for the better, however. The way they operated as a public body also involved hiding information that involved more than just scandals. Additionally, it meant keeping people like Prince John a secret.

The Royal Family has always made an effort to project a strong image. Family members who didn't fit their notion of that were viewed as liabilities, and the Queen's uncle John was one of them. It was discovered that John had some major health issues soon after his 1905 birth. He may have had a seizure issue in addition to being on the autism spectrum. A member of the Royal Family who was unable to convey the desired image in public was a problem. Unlike his siblings, John was never sent to a formal school, and although he made brief public appearances in his early years of life, they were infrequent. Even his own father's coronation was skipped by him.

No, Royal should ever be disruptive or insubordinate, especially in front of other people, according to reports about the boy. The family did not feature him in any Royal portraits when he became eight years old. He was moved away to live with a governess in 1916 as his health began to deteriorate.

After that date, he didn't spend a lot of time with his family. After the onset of World War One, his parents allegedly had a lot of work to do for the government. To keep them from worrying about his condition, his siblings were kept apart. After a seizure in 1919, he passed away while sleeping.

Born: Prince John of Wales12 July 1905York Cottage, Sandringham
Died: 18 January 1919 (aged 13)Wood Farm, Sandringham

A claim to the throne has always been a significant deal historically. Whoever has the greatest right to rule has been the subject of wars. Although it might not be as important to the average person nowadays, the Royal Family nevertheless values it highly. If for some reason they were not the rightful successors to the throne, they would then be simply plain people who would need to find a house to rent someplace.

Generally speaking, no one contests the legitimacy of the Royal Family, but DNA testing on a body discovered in a parking lot has raised the possibility of some disturbance. Sadly, King Richard III passed away in 1485 after being killed in combat. At Greyfriars Abbey, his body was buried. But a lot may happen in more than 500 years, and the King and the Abbey were largely forgotten. Such that his final resting place ended up being beneath a parking lot for an office building.

It was known that the property had originally been the location of the Abbey since other bodies had been found there over the years. When the King's body was discovered, DNA testing was done to identify the remains, and Richard's DNA results came back positive. The Y-chromosomes in the DNA tests don't match others in the Royal line, which is a twist in the story.

The remains of Richard were identified using his maternal line. However, if the Y-chromosome, which is carried down from the male side, is mismatched, it suggests that there may have been an affair somewhere along the family line. Someone gave birth to a child that was not of the Royal line at some point in history, and they may have fudged the facts to make it appear the child was legitimate. Heck, perhaps they weren't even aware.

There is no way to determine when the family line was impacted by this affair because we are unable to pinpoint when it may have started. Therefore, it's possible that the present Royals aren't the real deal. It might go back so far that all of the Plantagenets might not be legitimate heirs to the throne. They could be the real Royal family, or they might not be at all. That kind of confusion might arise from genetics and history.

Reign: 26 June 1483 – 22 August 1485, Coronation6 July 1483
Predecessor: Edward V
Successor: Henry VII

Born:2 October 1452Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire, England
Died: 22 August 1485 (aged 32)Bosworth Field, Leicestershire, England

In recent years, the Royal Family and mental health issues have dominated the press. Of course, these things are nothing new; over the years, they were just mostly kept under wraps. Being a royal may be stressful and demanding, especially for individuals who married into the family and weren't raised to anticipate the same amount of attention and duty that the Family are used to. Princess Diana also had to cope with that, but Meghan Markle only recently did. She struggled mightily under it, too.

In the 1990s, Andrew Morton published a book titled "Diana - Her True Story." He claimed Diana had made numerous attempts to end her life, often in grisly ways. Among other things, she attempted to slit her own wrists and fall down stairs. All of this was regarded as hearsay at the time. the claims that a writer was attempting to sell books. Some people accepted them as fact; others did not. However, recordings of her conversing on this subject surfaced years later, proving that she was genuinely unhappy and had made an attempt at suicide.

Born: Diana Frances Spencer, 1 July 1961, Park House, Sandringham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
Died: 31 August 1997 (aged 36), Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France

In the history of humans, an estimated 107 billion individuals have lived on earth. With all of those individuals, it is easy to conclude Adolf Hitler would be towards the top of any list of the three worst people to ever be friends with. Therefore, no one in the Royal Family wants to be reminded of the fact that Edward VIII had ties with the leader of the Third Reich.

There was a time when Edward seemed to really enjoy a friendship with Hitler, despite the fact that he abdicated the kingdom to wed an American. According to the documentation, it might have attempted to overthrow the monarchy and may have even gone further than that.

Given that Edward supported some of Hitler's economic principles and possessed some anti-Semitic views, the Nazi party was quite alluring to him. Hitler set out to woo the man as much as he could since he was well aware of how valuable a buddy in the British Royal Family would be.

It was said that Wallis Simpson, Edward's American wife, had a long-running relationship with a senior Nazi. She and Edward were being watched by British intelligence because they might be leaking information. A proposal to restore Edward to the throne was even mentioned in documents found after the war, proving the Nazi party's backing for him as a friendly face in England.

Reign: 20 January 1936 – 11 December 1936
Predecessor: George V
Successor: George VI

Born: Prince Edward of York23 June 1894White Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey, United Kingdom
Died: 28 May 1972 (aged 77)4 route du Champ d'Entraînement, Paris, France