![]() didn’t care that his son-a descendant of Queen Victoria and a distant heir to the British throne-was marrying a catsuit designer who had been to Burning Man. (In case you were wondering, Malysheva was inspired to launch her catsuit line after, according to her company’s official Web site, “a life-changing trip to Burning Man Festival.”) Ernst Sr. did not drop the bombshell until days before his son-also named Ernst August of Hanover-was due to marry Russian-born catsuit designer (seriously!) Ekaterina Malysheva. More backstory though: Prince Ernst August has also been accused of flashing a Nazi salute, attacking a photographer, and “urinating outside the Turkish pavilion at the World’s Fair in Hanover.” (So maybe it wasn’t so bad that Ernst-the Jersey Shore cast member of the royal family and estranged husband of another royal, Princess Caroline of Monaco-couldn’t attend Ernst Jr.’s wedding?)īut back to the wedding. first-the head of the deposed royal House of Hanover was convicted in 2008 of assaulting a fellow German at a Kenyan nightclub who refused to turn down the music and shut off some “annoying lasers.” (In his defense, nightclub music is usually way too loud.) Ernst claimed that he had merely “slapped across the face two times-left and right-saying: ‘One for the music, one for the light.’” But the victim claimed the prince had pounded him with a knuckleduster. A little colorful backstory about Prince Ernst August Sr. Think a runaway royal bride is dramatic? Then meet Prince Ernst August of Hanover, the 64-year-old German royal and distant cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, who, days before his son’s 2017 wedding, renounced the nuptials over property-including several castles and forests (!)-he claimed his son owed him. Left, from People Picture/Willi Schneider/REX/Shutterstock Right, from People Picture/Jens Hartmann/REX/Shutterstock. and his newlywed bride Ekaterina Malysheva on their wedding day, July 7, 2017. Left, Prince Ernst August photographed attending the wedding of Prince Christian of Hanover and Alessandra de Osma in Lima in March 2018 Right, Prince Ernst August Jr. Ahead, the most tantalizing of those tales. Luckily for thrill-seeking royal-watchers, a few other palaces have picked up the slack in scandalous nuptials. ![]() And, at the moment, the British royal family-once teeming with affairs and controversy-is suddenly the picture of normalcy. ![]() The fact that Queen Elizabeth has signed off on Prince Harry, her one-time-wild grandchild, marrying Meghan Markle-herself an American divorcée and television actress-is a testament to the monarch’s evolving moral attitude. Princess Margaret opted to keep her crown over the dashing group captain, avoiding a national scandal on par with her uncle’s decision to abdicate the throne for an American wife 17 years earlier. Sixty-five years ago, the idea of a British royal family member marrying a divorcée was so ludicrous-given the family’s association with the Church of England-that Queen Elizabeth II offered her heartsick younger sister a prickly ultimatum: Princess Margaret could marry Peter Townsend, but only if she forfeited her right to the throne for both herself and her children. Each week in May, Vanity Fair will flash back to a different British royal wedding in the lead-up to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s May 19 nuptials.
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