The disgraced prince is used to confrontation. He was discovered to be close pals with American businessman and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2011. He was wed to Sarah Ferguson, who exposed their acquaintance and said that her ex-husband had asked Epstein to pay off some of her bills. However, he afterwards claimed to have severed all contacts with Epstein Buckingham. In 2015, palace faced increased pressure to clarify their relationship with the American. The royal family has since made an effort to distance themselves from Andrew after learning of his troubling ties. Shortly after that, a civil lawsuit was filed against him, and it was announced that he would lose his military titles, royal patronages, and the right to use the title \u201chis royal highness\u201d in any official capacity. The issue is that nobody really knows the full extent of Andrew\u2019s involvement with Epstein, but the public opinion still seems to be so strongly against him that he probably won\u2019t be able to return to public life for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Invisible Cousins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Since mental illness was not as well understood in the 1940s as it is today, the royal family saw it as an embarrassment when two of the queen\u2019s first cousins, Narissa and Catherine Balzlion, were born with severe learning difficulties and were born in 1919 and 1926, respectively. As a result, Narissa and Catherine were never able to be a part of the royal family, and in 2011 an explosive documentary about them, the queen\u2019s hidden cousins, was released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n