Most unnerving conspiracy theories still following the royal family

The British royal family are among the most prominent public figures in the world.

With their each and every move extensively spotlighted and offered for public consumption by the royals themselves, deep suspense grows about exactly what it is that they get up to behind closed doors.

Such immense scrutiny has given rise to several conspiracies about members of the Crown over the years — could any of them be true? You decide.

Vampire King

According to ancestral accounts, King Charles is related to Vlad the Impaler — the despotic Romanian ruler who inspired Bram Stoker’s vampiric creation, Dracula — linking the British monarch to the mythical monster.

Secret Children

Not one but two members of the Firm have been accused of having secret children — Princess Margaret and Princess Diana.

It is believed that Margaret gave birth to a daughter, her love child with ex fiance Peter Townsend, who was sent off to live with a family in Kenya.

While Diana is suspected to have a secret daughter of her own out there, albeit, as a result of one of her frozen eggs stolen by a doctor who conducted fertility tests on the Princess prior to her royal marriage and upon Queen Elizabeth’s instructions.

Planned Murder

Diana is also involved in another conspiracy, which maintains that she was arranged to be killed by the royal family.

Most prominently conjured up by Mohamed Al-Fayed, the Egyptian entrepreneur was the father of the Princess’ last boyfriend, Dodi Al-Fayed, and after the two died in the same car crash, he claimed that the Crown conspired in the matter since they did not approve of Diana’s potential marriage into a Muslim family.

Serial killers

Speaking of royal murders, Queen Victoria’s grandson — and Queen Elizabeth’s great uncle — Prince Albert Victor is suspected to be the infamous serial killer, Jack the Ripper, who terrorised London in the 19th century.

The theory suggests that Albert contracted syphilis from a sex worker while abroad and, driven mad by the disease, went on a killing rampage, claiming the lives of many street women as revenge.

Royal lizards

One astounding conspiracy proposed that Queen Elizabeth and her household were actually extra-terrestrial reptile aliens, who routinely cause catastrophic world events, like 9/11.

The theory gained so much ground primarily because it found its way to the BBC, where former football and conspiracy theorist David Icke claimed that “much of it is backed up by hard factual information”, while discussing his findings in an interview titled David Icke on 9/11 and lizards in Buckingham Palace theories.