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Celebrities who misbehaved in Buckingham Palace | Celebrities who misbehaved in Buckingham Palace |
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Whether they're stealing loo rolls or doing drugs, celebrities have taken a few liberties on visits to Buckingham Palace. Here's a rogues' gallery of the famous faces who got up to no good. | Whether they're stealing loo rolls or doing drugs, celebrities have taken a few liberties on visits to Buckingham Palace. Here's a rogues' gallery of the famous faces who got up to no good. |
As the actress playing the Queen in the Netflix series The Crown, Olivia Colman has to channel the monarch's sense of duty and protocol. | |
But while promoting the series in an interview for the Sunday Times, she caused a stir by becoming the latest celebrity to admit to being part of misbehaviour at Buckingham Palace - confessing that her husband stole a souvenir. | But while promoting the series in an interview for the Sunday Times, she caused a stir by becoming the latest celebrity to admit to being part of misbehaviour at Buckingham Palace - confessing that her husband stole a souvenir. |
Buckingham Palace declined to comment, but the palace previously told the BBC that the vast majority of guests do not take anything. | Buckingham Palace declined to comment, but the palace previously told the BBC that the vast majority of guests do not take anything. |
"We get nearly 50,000 visitors a year and if they all took souvenirs there wouldn't be much left," a spokeswoman said after an earlier celebrity incident. | "We get nearly 50,000 visitors a year and if they all took souvenirs there wouldn't be much left," a spokeswoman said after an earlier celebrity incident. |
So who are the famous offenders? | So who are the famous offenders? |
Denise Van Outen | Denise Van Outen |
The TV presenter apologised after admitting to "borrowing" an ashtray and a tissue box holder from the palace in 1998. | The TV presenter apologised after admitting to "borrowing" an ashtray and a tissue box holder from the palace in 1998. |
She told viewers of Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, which she presented at the time, that it was "just a bit of fun". | She told viewers of Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, which she presented at the time, that it was "just a bit of fun". |
She said she sent them back with a gift - a stuffed camel with a note saying: "Sorry, Ma'am. I didn't meant to give you the hump." | She said she sent them back with a gift - a stuffed camel with a note saying: "Sorry, Ma'am. I didn't meant to give you the hump." |
Emma Bunton | Emma Bunton |
The Spice Girls singer revealed on ITV2's Celebrity Juice that she pinched a sign for the ladies' loos when she was invited to the palace to perform for the Queen. | The Spice Girls singer revealed on ITV2's Celebrity Juice that she pinched a sign for the ladies' loos when she was invited to the palace to perform for the Queen. |
Her light-fingered moment took place during the concert for the Golden Jubilee in 2002. | Her light-fingered moment took place during the concert for the Golden Jubilee in 2002. |
Piers Morgan | Piers Morgan |
The Good Morning Britain presenter admits to being a serial offender in the loos of the rich and famous. | The Good Morning Britain presenter admits to being a serial offender in the loos of the rich and famous. |
He said he once had a collection of toilet paper swiped from celebrity homes, with Simon Cowell's toilet roll ("black and monogrammed") now displayed next to the Queen's. | He said he once had a collection of toilet paper swiped from celebrity homes, with Simon Cowell's toilet roll ("black and monogrammed") now displayed next to the Queen's. |
But his nerve failed in the White House when Barack Obama was president. "I feared I would find myself in jail," he told the Mail on Sunday in 2011. | But his nerve failed in the White House when Barack Obama was president. "I feared I would find myself in jail," he told the Mail on Sunday in 2011. |
Olivia Colman | Olivia Colman |
The Oscar-winning actress told the Sunday Times that her husband had swiped a toilet roll when the couple were attending a charity event. | The Oscar-winning actress told the Sunday Times that her husband had swiped a toilet roll when the couple were attending a charity event. |
"My husband stole some loo roll just to say we got it from Buckingham Palace," she said. | "My husband stole some loo roll just to say we got it from Buckingham Palace," she said. |
It's not quite clear how complicit Colman herself was in the crime - we may need to put Broadchurch's finest detective Ellie Miller on the case to learn the full truth. | It's not quite clear how complicit Colman herself was in the crime - we may need to put Broadchurch's finest detective Ellie Miller on the case to learn the full truth. |
A palace insider's view | A palace insider's view |
A former press spokesman for the Queen, Dickie Arbiter says honest visitors to Buckingham Palace who leave without stealing a souvenir are not missing out. | A former press spokesman for the Queen, Dickie Arbiter says honest visitors to Buckingham Palace who leave without stealing a souvenir are not missing out. |
"It's quite ridiculous. The toilet paper doesn't have 'Buckingham Palace' on it, it's just plain white paper like everyone else has," he says. | "It's quite ridiculous. The toilet paper doesn't have 'Buckingham Palace' on it, it's just plain white paper like everyone else has," he says. |
And he questions whether an ashtray could have been taken from the palace in 1998, saying that it had been a non-smoking zone since well before Denise Van Outen's confession. | And he questions whether an ashtray could have been taken from the palace in 1998, saying that it had been a non-smoking zone since well before Denise Van Outen's confession. |
There are very few opportunities for souvenir hunters, he says. Cutlery is not embossed with a palace design and visitors to the palace are usually given napkins with their canapes rather than plates. | There are very few opportunities for souvenir hunters, he says. Cutlery is not embossed with a palace design and visitors to the palace are usually given napkins with their canapes rather than plates. |
But he suggests celebrity thieves are more in search of publicity than mementos. | But he suggests celebrity thieves are more in search of publicity than mementos. |
"It's not that they're taking anything of value. It's just so they can say, I've stolen a loo roll from Buckingham Palace," he said. | "It's not that they're taking anything of value. It's just so they can say, I've stolen a loo roll from Buckingham Palace," he said. |
"Go to Poundland and buy yourself a pack of nine." | "Go to Poundland and buy yourself a pack of nine." |
The Beatles | The Beatles |
John Lennon once claimed that the Fab Four smoked cannabis in the toilets before collecting their MBEs in 1965. | John Lennon once claimed that the Fab Four smoked cannabis in the toilets before collecting their MBEs in 1965. |
But fellow Beatle George Harrison later disputed this account, saying that the band just went to the loo for an ordinary cigarette "because we were so nervous". | But fellow Beatle George Harrison later disputed this account, saying that the band just went to the loo for an ordinary cigarette "because we were so nervous". |
Robbie Williams | Robbie Williams |
The singer, best known for his hit Angels, admitted smoking cannabis at Buckingham Palace when denying rumours he had once been sick there. | The singer, best known for his hit Angels, admitted smoking cannabis at Buckingham Palace when denying rumours he had once been sick there. |
He told the Sun in 2017: "Threw up in Buckingham Palace? No. I smoked a spliff in Buckingham Palace." | He told the Sun in 2017: "Threw up in Buckingham Palace? No. I smoked a spliff in Buckingham Palace." |
The paper suggested the incident had happened at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in 2012. | The paper suggested the incident had happened at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in 2012. |
Stephen Fry | Stephen Fry |
Buckingham Palace was just one of the high-profile locations in which the comedian and writer - a friend of the Prince of Wales - says he took cocaine. | Buckingham Palace was just one of the high-profile locations in which the comedian and writer - a friend of the Prince of Wales - says he took cocaine. |
In his memoir More Fool Me, he says he took the drug in several other royal palaces, as well as the House of Lords, House of Commons and BBC Television Centre. | In his memoir More Fool Me, he says he took the drug in several other royal palaces, as well as the House of Lords, House of Commons and BBC Television Centre. |
He wrote: "I have brought, you might say, gorgeous palaces, noble properties and elegant honest establishments into squalid disrepute." | He wrote: "I have brought, you might say, gorgeous palaces, noble properties and elegant honest establishments into squalid disrepute." |
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