Queen's relative 'faced £50000 demand in gay sex blackmail'

A member of the Royal Family was blackmailed after two men filmed his senior aide snorting cocaine and accusing his boss of performing a gay sex act on him, a jury was told yesterday.

Ian Strachan, 31, and Sean McGuigan, 41, threatened to make the video and audio files public unless they were paid £50,000, it was claimed. The men were said to have made eight hours of recordings featuring the royal’s “right-hand man” making “scandalous and disparaging remarks” about members of the Royal Family.

In what is the first blackmail case involving a member of the Royal Household since 1891, neither the royal, who is married, nor his aide can be named for legal reasons.

The Old Bailey was told that the defendant’s files showed the aide, known only as Witness D, claiming that the royal, Witness A, had performed oral sex on him on the kitchen floor during a private party. He also said he saw a member of the Royal Family “waving his willy around” in a lavatory. See Queen's relative 'faced £50000 demand in gay sex blackmail'
Times Online, UK