Royals fiddle Whackypedia

Prince Johan Friso, son of the reigning Queen Beatrix, and Princess Mabel of Oranje-Nassau were caught trying to change the entry.

In 2003 Mabel was set to marry Johan when Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende threw his toys out of the pram over the marriage.

He was a little concerned that Mabel had told him porkie pies about her romantic liaison with a druglord. She later admitted knowing the drug dealer but denied any exchange of bodily fluids.

Since the government did not approve, the prince had to renounce his place as second in line to the throne. He told the Prime Minister to go forth and multiply and married Mabel anyway.

On January 8, 2006, someone using a computer at Huis ten Bosch, the royal palace in The Hague, changed the Wikipedia entry on Mabel that had said she "gave misleading and false information" to Balkenende.

Instead Mabel only gave misleading information to the PM the entry said. Friso and Mabel have acknowledged they were the revisionists.

According to Associated Press, they made the changes together in order to make the entry match the letter which they sent to the prime minister explaining why they misled him in 2003.

They said that since the press tends to copy Whackypedia rather than do any real research an "incorrect version of events has arisen".

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