{"id":305323,"date":"2025-07-31T01:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305323\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:07:19","slug":"royal-family-rocked-by-a-tragic-loss-bullying-claims-and-a-near-death-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305323\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Family Rocked by a Tragic Loss, Bullying Claims and a Near-Death Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

The royal family has had its fair share of lows in recent weeks. Here, Star recounts their trials and tribulations.<\/p>\n

A Tragic Death<\/strong>\"<\/p>\n

Facebook\/Rosie Roche<\/p>\n

Rosie Roche<\/strong> \u2014 the 20-year-old cousin of Prince William<\/strong> and Prince Harry<\/strong> and granddaughter of Princess Diana<\/strong>\u2019s uncle Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy<\/strong> \u2014 was found dead<\/a> in her home in Norton, England, on July 14 with a firearm nearby.<\/p>\n

According to the local coroner<\/a>, the Durham University student\u2019s death was deemed \u201cnon-suspicious and there was no third-party involvement.\u201d<\/p>\n

King Accused of Bullying<\/strong>\"<\/p>\n

Getty Images<\/p>\n

Meghan Markle<\/strong> isn\u2019t the only royal accused of mistreating staff. An investigation by Britain\u2019s Sunday Times<\/a> published July 19 revealed 11 of 12 gardeners at King Charles<\/strong>\u2019 beloved Highgrove Estate have left since 2022 amid complaints of poor working conditions, low pay and morale and bullying behavior by the king.<\/p>\n

The monarch micromanaged staff and allegedly declared, \u201cDon\u2019t put that man in front of me again,\u201d after one staffer revealed he lacked knowledge about a particular flower.<\/p>\n

Anne\u2019s Near-Death Accident<\/strong>\"<\/p>\n

Getty Images<\/p>\n

More than a year after Princess Anne<\/strong> was hospitalized for five days when she \u201csustained minor injuries and [a] concussion following an incident on [her] Gatcombe Park estate,\u201d as Buckingham Palace announced<\/a> last summer, comes news that the horse-related ordeal was more dire than the public was told.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer accident was so much worse than anyone let on, and it took quite a while for her to feel herself again,\u201d a source revealed in a July 19 U.K. news story<\/a> about the Princess Royal, who remains the hardest-working member of her family.<\/p>\n

Heckled by His Subjects<\/strong>\"<\/p>\n

Getty Images<\/p>\n

No royal kowtowing here! During a walkabout<\/a> in Newmarket, England, July 22, members of the public confronted Charles about the royals\u2019 financial burden on taxpayers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy does your family cost us half a billion pounds a year, Charles?\u201d one man called out<\/a>. \u201cAh, yes,\u201d the monarch, who\u2019s worth an estimated $850 million, awkwardly fumbled before moving on \u2014 only to be confronted by a woman who asked him if it\u2019s \u201cfair\u201d the monarch makes millions from his Duchy of Lancaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The royal family has had its fair share of lows in recent weeks. Here, Star recounts their trials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[17926,112269,395,1760,447,532,5118,1412,5105,7710,519,448,8688,112268,112267],"class_list":{"0":"post-305323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-durham-university","9":"tag-edmund-roche","10":"tag-getty-images","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-prince-harry","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-anne","15":"tag-princess-diana","16":"tag-royal","17":"tag-royal-families","18":"tag-royal-family","19":"tag-royals","20":"tag-the-royal-family","21":"tag-tragic-death","22":"tag-trials-and-tribulations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114945172849067981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}