But while the royals love to have fun, there’s on game that had to be taken off the table – Monopoly. According to Prince Andrew, the game is a strict no-go for the older members of the family.

When offered a set during an official engagement, the disgraced Prince was forced to turn it down, explaining to the well-wisher that the classic game – which involves buying and trading properties – would not be well received by his family.

“We are not allowed to play Monopoly at home,” the royal revealed to to the member of the public, according to the Telegraph. “It gets too vicious.”

But Andrew’s ex wife Sarah Ferguson told the Tea Talks podcast that – presumably with the exception of Monopoly – the family ‘do love games, board games, card games, Scrabble, jigsaws’. “They love to do what other families do and that’s lovely,” she added, calling the royals a ‘unified family’.

Kate is said to favour Scrabble, with Olympic boxer Anthony Ogogo once revealing she told him her and William were equally competitive and could never finish a game because one of them would slam the board shut. Tatler Magazine even reported that Kate and Prince Harry’s wife Meghan first bonded over a game of Scrabble back in 2018.

Charades is said to be a safer option for the Royal Family and was a firm favourite of the late Queen Elizabeth II. And while Monopoly was always banned, it seems William’s children are determined to revive the tradition.

“We love Monopoly and Risk,” the future king told The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust’s radio station in 2021. “That’s a good game, it goes on for hours and usually everyone gets really cross because they lose but that’s what I like playing.”