# Royal sex tape blackmail **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 28, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350 "2007-10-28T18:00:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/21 "2007-10-29T01:32:11Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] Actually it’s not at all unusal for the royal consort to be in line for the throne given all the [del]incest[/del] interbreeding customary among royal families. [/QUOTE] I dunno, it’s not that bad for a tribal culture. And _pace_ the comments above, I think Wills, Zara, & the Yorks are all pretty cute. But I thought Di was pretty too. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/22 "2007-10-29T14:50:19Z")
[Update.](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490216&in_page_id=1770&ct=5) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/23 "2007-10-29T15:09:02Z")
The blackmailers sound like a couple of bounders. And I’m doubting any royal would be stupid enough to use an official royal stationery envelope to deliver cocaine. ---
**Author:** ![PuddingCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@PuddingCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PuddingCat)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/24 "2007-10-29T18:13:09Z")
“Word on the street” here in the UK is that allegedly it’s a he and his initials are F and W. Oh, and he was mentioned a few posts above. Interestingly there are some quite serious attempts to defuse this one. Even if the speculation is true, he’s quite a minor royal and has been in trouble for this one before. Ho-hum. tim ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/25 "2007-10-29T18:17:36Z")
[Freddie Windsor](http://www.stormmodels.com/mendetails.html?id=1049&image=7874). ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/26 "2007-10-29T19:08:26Z")
Until it’s proven otherwise I’m going to continue to believe that the royal in question is in fact the queen. Really, how did you think she managed to put up with all that grueling waving and smiling? ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/27 "2007-10-30T04:55:12Z")
The clues seem to be: Male, No public duties has a family has a military aide We ought to be down to just a few suspects. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/28 "2007-10-30T12:12:10Z")
It’s Viscount Linley, Princess Margaret’s son. He’s pretty much a private citizen, so no great scandal. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/29 "2007-10-30T13:39:57Z")
Is that official? I am counting on Peter Philips. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/30 "2007-10-30T14:12:20Z")
[QUOTE=NinjaChick] Until it’s proven otherwise I’m going to continue to believe that the royal in question is in fact the queen. Really, how did you think she managed to put up with all that grueling waving and smiling? [/QUOTE] Seriously, could you blame her? That’s what’s in her pocketbook. ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/31 "2007-11-01T19:44:21Z")
Deffo Viscount Linley. Beans spilled in the Adelaide Advertiser (South Australia) - but they’ve pulled the story. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/32 "2007-11-01T19:51:07Z")
The Australian Herald Sun too. It amuses me they’re fucking around with gagging orders with an entire internet out there to spill the beans. Remember when Jack Straw’s son got busted for dealing? They put a gagging order on in England, but forgot Scotland. Arseholes. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/33 "2007-11-01T20:38:55Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Wait, where is Colonel Mustard putting that candlestick? [/QUOTE] Into the cuntservatory. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/34 "2007-11-01T20:43:54Z")
Quite frankly I’m a Brit and I’ve never heard of the cunt and couldn’t care less. Plus I WOULD shag Fergie,but there again thats no recommend. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/35 "2007-11-01T21:26:58Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] Anyone [on this list](http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_1940000/newsid_1948200/1948219.stm) engage anyone’s tittilation gland? Not I. [/QUOTE] Just out of curiousity - how is the order of succession determined? Seems odd to me that the current queen’s daughter ranks lower than the daughter of the current queen’s second son. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/36 "2007-11-01T21:56:21Z")
[QUOTE=Malthus] Just out of curiousity - how is the order of succession determined?.. [/QUOTE] Royal prerogative. The Queen can alter it at her pleasure, but she tends to follow centuries of established tradition. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/37 "2007-11-01T23:31:42Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] > [@Malthus](#): > > Just out of curiousity - how is the order of succession determined? Royal prerogative. The Queen can alter it at her pleasure, but she tends to follow centuries of established tradition. [/QUOTE] I thought that the succession was determined by Parliament via statute through the \*Act of Settlement \* 1701. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/38 "2007-11-02T09:10:40Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] Quite frankly I’m a Brit and I’ve never heard of the cunt and couldn’t care less. Plus I WOULD shag Fergie,but there again thats no recommend. [/QUOTE] Yeah me too. I reckon Fergie is one raunchy bugger 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/39 "2007-11-02T09:15:16Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] Quite frankly I’m a Brit and I’ve never heard of the cunt [/QUOTE] Heard of who? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350/40 "2007-11-02T09:22:40Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] I reckon Fergie is one raunchy bugger 😛 [/QUOTE] Before she met whatsisname, she lived near the place I used to work, at the house of a millionaire type. According to local rumour, this bloke was insatiably over-sexed, and the fact that he hadn’t got rid of her after several months indicated that she was pleasing him in all aspects of their relationship, IYKWIM. In other words, like a shithouse door when cholera is in town. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/royal-sex-tape-blackmail/424350.md?page=1)