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Even The Royals

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.4 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Just like us, royals are not immune to cringe-worthy moments. Caroline of Brunswick nearly flashed the crowd at her own wedding — while her groom got plastered across the church. Classy! To avoid pulling a royal faux pas, Brooke and Aricia are joined by Bonnie Tsai, founder of Beyond Etiquette. She’s giving us the ultimate crash course in high society manners — from when to bow versus curtsey, to decoding the fork situation at a royal dinner, to surviving a meeting with King Henry VIII (preferably with your head still attached).

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to Even the Royals early and ad free right now.
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0:13.2	Brooke, we're coming out of the gate hot today.
0:16.5	What is your most embarrassing social fopah?
0:19.6	Like your Princess Diaries moment, where she's freezing her mouth with a palate cleanser ice cream or accidentally lighting a guest sleeve on fire.
0:27.9	Oh, man. See, this is hard for me to say because usually if something super embarrassing happens to me, I don't care.
0:33.9	Sure. Like I've fallen down the stairs in front of people when I was doing my internship at
0:38.8	Iowa West. Yeah. I used to park kind of far away and then I would walk down Hollywood Boulevard.
0:42.7	And I was wearing a sundress one day and I got inside and realized my dress was up behind my
0:48.1	laptop piece of my butt was out. Oh no. And I honestly was like, well, well, everyone on Hollywood Boulevard just got a free show.
0:56.7	Well, that's also like one of the more normal things happening on Hollywood Boulevard. So.
0:59.9	True. Yeah. I mean, I love a good screw up. Nothing's more fun than watching people commit social
1:04.8	faux pas while I'm not committing them. Right, right, right. And Royals have made some pretty memorable
1:10.4	fauxas over the years,
1:11.6	like the time Princess Diana accidentally called Charles by the wrong name during their wedding in 19801.
1:18.4	Now, this is not a Ross Geller situation.
1:20.9	She said Philip Charles Arthur George instead of Charles Philip Arthur George, which, I don't know.
1:27.0	Is that really that big of a mistake?
1:28.2	I can only imagine that'll happen to your groom at your wedding with all your names. He's been like, Kathleen, Erecia Williams, Skidmore. I don't know. Yeah, it's a lot of names. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And there were several occasions where unexpected gusts of wind caused Queen Elizabeth II to have a wardrobe malfunction,
1:45.6	which eventually led to her team sewing tiny weights into her skirts to make sure they always stay
1:50.7	down. And this is a good idea, actually.
1:52.5	It is a good idea. Yeah. It is. But it's also insane. It is insane. It's like now my clothes are
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