Olivia Colman is about to take over from Claire Foy as the Queen in The Crown.

In her role, she’ll have to channel that sense of duty that we’ve come to associate with Queen Elizabeth (when she’s not slapping her nephew and winking at Elton John).

Colman is also one of the celebrities who have misbehaved in Buckingham Palace.

She joins a long list of folks, including The Beatles, who were invited to the palace, and for some reason, just couldn’t keep it together, says the BBC.

Here’s a list of the famous offenders.

Emma Bunton (Baby Spice)

When Baby Spice was invited to perform for the Queen she stole a sign for the ladies bathroom. This happened during the concert for the Golden Jubilee in 2002.

Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan is an imbecile, so it’s not surprising that he generally misbehaves in the loos of the rich and famous.

He said he once had a collection of toilet paper swiped from celebrity homes, with Simon Cowell’s toilet roll, “black and monogrammed”, now displayed next to the Queen’s.

I doubt Piers will be invited back to the Palace following his latest rant about Harry and Meghan.

Olivia Colman

In an interview with the Sunday Times, Colman admitted that her husband made off with a toilet roll while they were attending a charity event.

A former spokesman for the Queen, Dickie Arbiter, weighs in on the toilet-paper-stealing trend:

“It’s quite ridiculous. The toilet paper doesn’t have ‘Buckingham Palace’ on it, it’s just plain white paper like everyone else has,” he says.

“It’s not that they’re taking anything of value. It’s just so they can say, I’ve stolen a loo roll from Buckingham Palace,” he said.

“Go to Poundland and buy yourself a pack of nine.”

Fair enough.

The Beatles

John Lennon claimed that The Beatles smoked weed in the toilets before collecting their MBEs in 1965.

George Harrison said that it was an ordinary cigarette. I’m inclined to go with Lennon on this one, because it’s more interesting.

Robbie Williams

Robbie Williams also smoked a joint at Buckingham Palace at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert in 2012.

Stephen Fry

Buckingham Palace is just one of the locations where Fry did cocaine.

In his memoir More Fool Me, he says he took the drug in several other royal palaces, as well as the House of Lords, House of Commons and BBC Television Centre.

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting that from Fry.

At least he left the toilet paper alone.

[source:bbc]