Let’s revel in Rebel’s royal revelations
Rebel Wilson is certainly not holding back in her memoir. She has written about remaining a virgin until she was 35 and called Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen a “massive asshole”. Now it’s been revealed that in one chapter she claims a British royal invited her to an orgy in California where drugs were freely offered to guests.
The actress wrote in Rebel Rising that she was invited to the shindig, held at the home of a tech billionaire, by a man she refers to as “the Windsor”, who was “like 15th or 20th in line to the British throne”.
The details of the event are mildly amusing. The party, held at a rented ranch on the outskirts of Los Angeles, had a mediaeval theme. Rebel recalls men “jousting on horses in a field” and women “dressed as mermaids” floating in a swimming pool.
She watched the “British royal flounder around” and didn’t realise the event was an orgy until 2am, when someone came with a tray of MDMA which she mistook for sweets. When another guest told her the drug was “for the orgy” she twigged she was at a sex party and “ran out of there as fast as I could”.
Needless to say the salacious story has made it into the papers. But is it all that surprising? The House of Windsor has always been a strange mix of prudence and debauchery.
There have been plenty of royal scandals, involving sex, drugs or finances – and sometimes all three together. Think of Princess Margaret photographed with her lover Roddy Llewellyn on a romantic getaway to her home in Mustique while still married. Or the infamous image of Fergie having her toes sucked by her millionaire Texan lover John Bryan. Or the thenPrince of Wales’s “tampongate” or Prince Harry’s naked billiards moment or the many, many scandals involving Prince Andrew and his association with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Although I know journalists are feverishly trying to work out who Rebel was referring to, I doubt his identity will be confirmed. I suggest we instead enjoy this scandal and relish in its barmy surrealness, a bonkers story of drugs, sex, a Hollywood house party, mermaids in a swimming pool, partygoers playing knights outside, an orgy on the cards – told to us by, of all people, Pitch Perfect star Rebel Wilson.