8 Shockingly Crazy Conspiracy Theories Involving the British Royal Family

1. Queen Elizabeth I may not be a real, biological lady after all! Stories reveal that she was sent to a small village by her father, King Henry VIII, in the 16th century to ensure her safety amidst the plague. Despite that  she eventually succumbed to the disease. Before the king could learn about the unfortunate news, the governess, who was massively terrified, searched the whole village for a girl of Elizabeth’s age that could replace the royal, but they failed to find one. Having left with no choice, she asked a farm boy named Neville to act out as the Tudor scion, a plan that turned out perfectly well. This identity swap is said to be the reason why Queen Elizabeth I never married.

2. Jack the Ripper could be Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, more popularly known as Prince Eddy, grandson of Queen Victoria. The royal has been suspected to be the notorious serial killer, who often victimized prostitutes, killing them by slitting their throats and inflicting them gruesome abdominal mutilations. A surgeon who allegedly knew about the real identity of Jack the Ripper once said that the murderer was “a scion of a noble family”. The doctor passed away in 1970 and all his papers were burned by his son; basically, the secret and the truth died with him.

3. Greg Pollowitz, editor at conservative news website Twitchy.com, claims that Prince Harry’s marriage to Meghan is one stealthy trick by the British royal family to conquer America. "Prince Harry's kids will be Americans. What if one grows up to be president and is in line for the throne at the same time? Brits are playing long-ball here, but it's a smart move. They want America back and this is how they'll do it," he wrote in an article.

4. David Icke, an ex BBC presenter turned conspiracy theorist, has claimed that the British royal family—and a lot of public figures and world leaders—are “a band of reptile humanoids”  or “Annunaki”, whose human ancestors had copulated with reptilian aliens, and that they are the ones to blame for the Holocaust and the 9/11 attack.

5. Charles and Diana may have had a secret daughter. The Globe reported in 2014 that a gynecologist who examined the Princess of Wales prior to her wedding—to make certain she can bear children—allegedly took some of Diana’s egg cells and mated them with Charles’s own sperm cells via in vitro fertilization. One doctor supposedly stole one of the embryos for her wife to carry in her own womb, and which resulted to a daughter named Sarah, who was allegedly born shortly after Charles and Diana tied the knot in 1981.

6. Genealogy experts have asserted that Prince Charles is a vampire as he is a descendant of the person who inspired the 1987 novel Dracula, Vlad the Impaler. This theory has already reached the Prince of Wales and actually made a joke about it once, saying that his bloodline guarantees him of a stake in Transylvania.

7. Meghan Markle may not actually be a real person. Rumors of the now Duchess of Sussex being a robot started when she was seen not showing any facial expressions during the finale of Britain’s Got Talent. Harper’s Bazaar then went sleuthing and discovered that it was actually a different person just wearing a Meghan Markle mask (a different person was also wearing a Prince Harry mask) to promote a new Live Figures exhibit at Madame Tussauds.

8. The most infamous conspiracy theory that has ever hounded the British royal family has to be that they had a hand in the car mishap that took the life of Princess Diana and her then boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, in 1997. It has been alleged that they did not want the Princess of Wales to marry and give birth to the child of Fayed, who was a Muslim. It was never confirmed, however, whether Diana was pregnant or even had plans of marrying the film producer at the time of the accident.