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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<\/a>, this classic game has long been absent from the Sandringham<\/a> Christmas games cupboard, and there\u2019s a colourful reason behind it.<\/p>\n 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<\/a>, members of the Royal Family are no longer allowed to play Monopoly.<\/p>\n 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<\/a>, he said: “We are not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Finding this hilarious, members of Reddit<\/a> have commented on the ‘Today I learned’ thread, that the Firm are supposedly not allowed to play the board game.<\/p>\n One wrote: “They probably own half the board. They could play Monopoly IRL.”<\/p>\n Another joked: “Just imagining Harry and William secretly playing a smuggled in monopoly set in a dark corner of Buckingham Palace.”<\/p>\n A third said: “If the Royal Family is anything like mine, there’d be a fist fight.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Invented by Charles Darrow in 1935, Monopoly is the popular real-estate board game<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n However, it seems the younger royals remain unfazed by the Monopoly ban as Prince William<\/a> 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.”<\/p>\n