Kate Middleton, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth Have Broken These Royal Rules

Kate Middleton, Prince Charles and Queen Elizabeth II have broken royal protocol at least once in their lives.

Members of the royal family are not allowed to sign autographs because of the risk of it being forged. But in 2010, the future King broke the protocol when he signed an autograph for a victim of the devastating floods. Prince Charles wrote “Charles 2010” on a piece of paper.

This is not Prince Charles’ official signature, so it is possible that he didn’t really break the protocol completely. Meghan Markle did a similar thing when she gave a female fan an autograph. But what the Duchess of Sussex simply did was to write the girl’s name on a piece of paper.

Her Majesty also did a similar gesture when she signed a football for a young Manchester United football fan inside the Petronas Twin Towers building in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1998.

Following the singing, Sir Bobby Charlton, a United player, and England football hero, said, “She didn’t know what to do so I just helped to hold the ball. This is a fantastic honor for Manchester United.”

In 2014, Middleton and basketball player LeBron James were involved in a controversy. The athlete broke royal protocol when he placed his arm around the Duchess of Cambridge during a photo op. Middleton seemed surprised with what James did, but she was unable to call his attention.

Five years earlier, Michelle Obama committed the same mistake when she hugged Her Majesty out of sheer excitement. Years later, the former First Lady revealed that the monarch didn’t necessarily mind what she did.

In her book “Becoming,” Obama said that she and Her Majesty bonded over their shoes. After telling each other that their feet were hurting, they looked at each other with identical expressions.

“And with this, she busted out with a fully charming laugh. Forget that she sometimes wore a diamond crown and that I’d flown to London on the presidential jet; we were just two tired ladies oppressed by our shoes,” she wrote.