Yes, and they were eventually held accountable for shit like that, and we moved away from monarchies.

It's a sign of a really bad leader that they do this.

Or maybe it's inherent to power and the recent trend is against human nature. You cannot seriously say that this is a major concern in moving against monarchies. After all, the royals are just the most well known ones (because it involves succession). Plenty of non royal powerful people also do so.

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Infidelity is as old as the institution of marriage. Very few people are ever ostracized for it, and most of those were women. Among elites, it was usually expected to have lower-status women for fun and not to bother the nobly-bred wife for anything other than bearing legitimate heirs.

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Maybe eventually. After they have been doing it for decades. When it’s inconvenient for folks now.

Notably, every senior woman leader I worked for had something similar going on too.

Royalty are also notoriously bad leaders a lot of the time.