Shocking online errors which landed royal family members in trouble over the years

Despite the royal family’s pristine and flawless approach towards each of their affairs, the fallibility of their ultimately human nature often comes out in the unforgiving world of social media.

While some of the members run into trouble more frequently than the others, even senior royals like Queen Elizabeth and King Charles’ names have been besmirched due to the errors made by their social media teams.

Here are some of the most glaring and memorable among them:

Kate Middleton’s Mother’s Day fiasco

Likely the one fallacy most fresh in royal followers’ minds would be the utterly conspicuous one committed by Kensington Palace in 2024.

When Kate Middleton posted her Mother’s Day tribute amid her prolonged public absence — later revealed to be a result of her cancer diagnosis — the heavily edited snap featuring the Princess of Wales and her three children quickly turned the innocent situation haywire, with the royal forced to share an apologetic follow-up, sharing on X (formerly known as Twitter), “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing.”

Queen Elizabeth’s bizarre quote

On the royal family’s official page on X (then called Twitter), a one-word tweet in 2020 came to be associated with Queen Elizabeth as the account’s profile picture used to feature her sole image at the time.

Following the appearance of a solitary “Thanks”, the royal account scrambled to delete the post within minutes — but not before the tweet had amassed several thousand likes and reposts on the platform.

Meghan Markle’s title error

The official name for Meghan Markle’s profile on Instagram is listed as “Meghan, Duchess of Sussex”, which was revealed to be an error by royal standards.

Royal observers pointed out that the authentic stylisation of Meghan’s title should be “Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex”. According to HELLO!, “The difference is important, as the first is simply a style and the second is a title.”

However, despite the indication, the 44-year-old royal proved to be firm in her choice as she hasn’t fixed the mistake till date.

Charles and Camilla fold under pressure

Back in 2020, when The Crown’s season four started streaming on Netflix, King Charles and Queen Camilla (who were then the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall) were forced to turn off the replies on their X account following their extra-marital affair’s depiction on the show.

PEOPLE had reported at the time, “The palace confirmed that they restricted comments after some recent replies broke the Royal Household’s social media guidelines, which do not permit the posting of abusive comments.”

Though a precautionary measure rather than an error, the action had attracted further ridicule and mistreatment from online users.