For many families, Monopoly is a holiday staple, with long hours, rivalry, and occasionally someone flipping the board in frustration. But according to multiple reports about the Royal Family’s festive traditions, this classic game has long been absent from the Sandringham Christmas games cupboard, and there’s a colourful reason behind it.
Monopoly, an economics-themed board game, holds the Guinness World Record for being the most-played game, entertaining 500 million people worldwide. However, according to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, members of the Royal Family are no longer allowed to play Monopoly.
The former Prince was forced to decline the game when a well-wisher presented it to him during an official engagement, explaining that the royals had been discouraged from playing it. According to the Telegraph, he said: “We are not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.”
Finding this hilarious, members of Reddit have commented on the ‘Today I learned’ thread, that the Firm are supposedly not allowed to play the board game.
One wrote: “They probably own half the board. They could play Monopoly IRL.”
Another joked: “Just imagining Harry and William secretly playing a smuggled in monopoly set in a dark corner of Buckingham Palace.”
A third said: “If the Royal Family is anything like mine, there’d be a fist fight.”
Invented by Charles Darrow in 1935, Monopoly is the popular real-estate board game where players compete to become the wealthiest by selling, buying, and trading properties. It has since been turned into a game on Nintendo Switch and a game for iPhone.
However, it seems the younger royals remain unfazed by the Monopoly ban as Prince William told The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust’s radio station in 2021: “We love Monopoly, that’s good, and Risk. Have you played Risk before? That’s a good game, goes on for hours and usually everyone gets very cross because they lose. But that’s what I like playing.”
William revealed that Monopoly and Risk go down a treat in their house on Christmas Day, which happens to be Sandringham House in Norfolk, where the family of five usually joins the King and Queen.
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