Rebel Wilson's extraordinary claims that she was invited to a drug-fueled orgy by minor royalty at a party in LA this week were greeted with sarcastic amusement by hard-partying British aristocrats and friends of minor royalty. .
There has always been a segment of the upper class, known by their peers as “drug addicts,'' who incorporate heavy drug consumption alongside traditional social activities such as hunting, shooting, and fishing.
Consider the example of John Harvey, 7th Marquess of Bristol, who was famously dissolute. Although he inherited a huge fortune, he died penniless from drug addiction in 1999. Author Anthony Hayden-Guest described his parties as places where “cocaine and heroin were served like flowers.” Harvey famously kept a helicopter at his country estate and piloted it with a road map in his lap while snorting cocaine. He died suffering from multiple organ failure due to drug use.
Rebel Wilson says she was invited to an orgy by the British royal family
Another wild socialite of the 1970s and 80s was Viscount Jamie Blandford.He was the great-grandson of the Gilded Age. Grande Lady Consuelo Vanderbilt poured money into the family coffers depleted by a loveless marriage to the 9th Duke of Marlborough. Jamie has been jailed numerous times and has over 20 convictions for drug and other crimes. His penchant for a simple life was well known, and at one stage his father, the 11th Duke, took legal action to prevent him from inheriting his family estate.
However, Blandford repaired his relationship with his father and inherited his title and fortune in 2014. In fact, he successfully ran for election to the local town council in 2021, seven years after assuming the duchy.
Several underage royals have been embroiled in drug scandals in recent years. Charles III's second cousin, Lord Frederick Windsor, 45, admitted to using cocaine when he was 20, and future Queen Camilla's son, Tom Parker Bowles, also admitted to using cocaine in 1999. arrested. Princess Margaret's son Viscount David Linley, threatened in 2007 to release video footage of him allegedly engaging in sex acts and using cocaine. His blackmailers were sentenced to five years in prison.
Prince Harry is currently facing questions from a conservative think tank in the US seeking to see his immigration application over drug use he admitted to in his memoirs. And this week it was revealed that Princess Beatrice's ex-boyfriend Paolo Liuzzo was found dead of a suspected drug overdose in his Miami hotel room. He once claimed that Beatrice and her sister Eugenie, then 15, attended a party together in Jamaica where the guests drank magic mushroom tea.
And then there's the writer Aatish Taseer, who dated Lady Gabriella Windsor and then wrote: vanity fair: “For three surreal years, Ella and I hung around Kensington Palace. We swam naked in the Queen's Pool at Buckingham Palace. We did MDMA at Windsor Castle.” ”
In other words, what Wilson claims in his new memoir is that level risingIt has been questioned in some quarters that she was invited to a lavish party that turned into an orgy by a man “10th or 15th in line'' to the throne, an upper-class London party. sounds very true.
A source in Britain's high-end party scene told The Daily Beast: That's what lotus eaters do. ”
It comes as no surprise that a London drug dealer who regularly sells his goods to the city's upper class party venues has been accused of attending drug-fueled orgies involving underage royals. He said no. “Many of my clients are former boarding school students with cold parents, and they don't even realize they're traumatized by it. I've known them for years, We're at the same university, we're equals, and we just happened to bring the equipment. These people don't want to use anonymous return services.”
The dealer said cocaine was “very old-fashioned now” and parties were likely to be livened up by magic mushroom-infused alcohol “drops” priced as low as £60 (about $75) for about 40 drops. Ta. “Someone puts two drops in your hand and you lick it off. No need to hang around in the bathroom, no jitters like cocaine.”
According to another regular partygoer, the drug scene is now split into two, with one side still knocking back cocaine and molly at rave-style private parties, and the other a more bohemian camp taking drugs. He says he takes a hippie wellness approach. “They're into microdosing, ayahuasca, magic mushrooms, and (psychedelic) DMT,” the source said. “It's more about spiritual uplift. I recently heard that one crew flew in a shaman from Peru for an ayahuasca weekend in a stately home. It's been happening in Ibiza for years. “But it's new here.”
The patron saint of the Gaia gang is, of course, Prince Harry, who reveals in his memoirs: spare He said he used ayahuasca first recreationally and then as a therapeutic tool.
“It's very different to go out for ayahuasca on the weekend and just stay up all night with chemicals. When you have kids and responsibilities, it's actually pretty tough,” the source said. “And if you're in the middle of rewilding the land, it doesn't really make sense to support criminal organizations and environmental destruction in the Amazon just to get a nose bag.”
The exclusive lifestyle of some of the British aristocracy, while perhaps anachronistic, remains a powerful narrative in modern film and television. Of course, these days, salt burnSomething like Brideshead revisited drug-addled redux and Guy Ritchie's classy crime comedy caper series gentlemenThe film follows a newly minted man who discovers that his late father kept a roof over the place by allowing a powerful criminal organization to grow industrial quantities of cannabis in an underground factory in a remote corner of the property. This is the story of a duke who became a nobleman.
Barry Keoghan in Saltburn.
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The younger generation of Tophs sometimes sarcastically refer to themselves as “Chins”. This is an abbreviation for the phrase “chinless wonders”, which once used a derogatory description of the slightly useless, wealthy and privileged aristocratic class. Their lives and language are documented by the anonymous author of Bakusho Publishing's hit book. Chin Dictionaryan anarchic interpretation of Nancy Mitford's famous work Noblesse oblige Toward the 21st century.
One entry that perhaps gives some ironic insight into the ideal Chin Party is “Bowser's Castle.” It's described as a “popular after-dinner game where you drive a quad bike up the hall stairs.” N64 Mario Kart named after his level. In this level you have to move through a huge castle, avoid ancient statues and forget to leave the tenor for the vacuum cleaner. ”
The author, who remains anonymous and prefers the title Secretary Chin, called The Daily Beast to discuss the topic of drug trafficking as we were at a private drinking party. When I couldn't speak. London's Hoares Bank, he joked, is “the most Chin-like thing you can imagine.”
However, in a subsequent email he said: “Mushrooms are ubiquitous, but gac (for the less knowledgeable readers) is obsolete. Mushrooms are more socially acceptable. Mushrooms are synonymous with forests, festivals, and outdoor spaces. Not only that, but the psilocybin ingredient ties neatly into the jaw-dropping tech/VC scene.
“Everyone also employs the same dealer who is said to be turning over £500,000 a month. He brands mushrooms on lovely chocolate bars designed to look green and black. He is seen wearing a sort of pirate wizard outfit at most festivals, especially the Noisily and Heartwood festivals.
“Pingers (E) at weddings are also common. Its users (I'm not one, I just like observing other people's behavior) are used for traditional wedding rings and classic marquees. -I don't care about the in-field at all.
But as for servers distributing MDMA at parties attended by Rebel Wilson, that wouldn't happen these days, another source told The Daily Beast.
“That may have happened in 2014, but these days you don't see politicians doing drugs in public because they don't want to lose their jobs at JPMorgan,” the source said. “Also, she says it was a rented house, which sounds a little in bad taste. Better to have your own shitty pompous person hosting parties and not some randos selling you out like she did.” is much better.”
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