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    The price of fame in the era of 24/7 paparazzi

    Kate Middleton and the sickness of a nation


    New Statesman | UK Politics & Culture Magazine




    A sick mother puhed to share her diagnosis.Despite Neverna's well fouunded distrust of the Beeb it was the organ trusted to keep an embargo so kids would leanr from parents and not some grubby blogger retweeted on X etc

    Kate Middleton and the sickness of a nation

    There will be many resounding, high-flown words about the Princess of Wales over the weekend. They will be hollow.

    By Will Lloyd

    The Princess of Wales has cancer. It only adds to the sense that these are locust years for the House of Windsor. Not an annus horribilis but a succession of them.

    Crisis after crisis, illness after illness, death after death. Prince Harry is a podcaster in the United States. Prince Philip is dead. Prince Andrew is still, excruciatingly, alive. The King is being treated for his own cancer and his Queen is about as popular with the public as a case of the shingles.

    Prince William has been subject to three months of reputation-shredding social media rumours. Few in the country will look at him in the same way again. William does not have faith, unlike his father and his grandmother and her father. This evening’s events might be the thing to force him to the pews.


    The Kate Middleton story illustrates exactly what Monarchy in the 21st century is all about. A woman with a serious illness, who requested basic privacy, has been forced this evening to wave her medical records in front of the cameras for an international audience, for its entertainment. In the three months it has taken us to get here, her entire family has had its integrity, good sense and decency questioned. The Windsors don’t rule over us. We own them, thank you very much.

    The death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 might have been a moment where Britain questioned its faith in the Monarchical idea. A long reign was over, to be followed by a shorter one. Instead we queued.

    Outsiders to Britain – Americans basically – often wonder what on earth we are doing here, keeping several posh people in precious metal hats, while letting them roam around homes with ample parkland. Much theory has been written about royalty.

    It’s often quite excruciating to read. Here’s Roger Scruton:


    As a ‘symbol of the nation,’ the monarch rescues a people from the daily grind of politics to reveal where they came from and why they are the people they are.
    That was why the English regarded the monarch simultaneously as an ordinary human being, and as a manifestation of their own identity, the consecrated symbol of the land itself.
    Scruton was right, but in ways he did not anticipate. Royalty truly is a mirror of the nation. Part-collapsed, sickened, dragged through the mud. Something great reinvented in the most tawdry ways you could imagine. Not a consecrated symbol any longer. But an accurate one.
    There will be many resounding, high-flown words about Kate Middleton over the weekend. They will be hollow. Our parasitic behaviour is the only reason she’s made this announcement

    IMHO William will of course also be haunted by how his own mother was taunated and hounded by the media to her untimely death.
    Imagine you look around for support a brother who hates your promogenitur a dad with cancer who ditched his mum and dare we speak of Uncle Andy..................................makes the coronation of Simon as Taoiseach seem positively serene
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    A woman with a serious illness, who requested basic privacy, has been forced this evening to wave her medical records in front of the cameras for an international audience, for its entertainment. In the three months it has taken us to get here, her entire family has had its integrity, good sense and decency questioned
    what a load of nauseating tripe.

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    Rather pales in comparison to the health of a rather closer, much more inbred lot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrWilly View Post
    what a load of nauseating tripe.
    It really is.

    The whole 'you should be ashamed of yourselves because...' line on this is nakedly hypocritical.

    'Our parasitical behaviour...' oh do f o.

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    I am sure you are aware of the vitriol directed toward the coloured one

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    The only time the Royals should be in headline news is when the story involves a guillotine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    I am sure you are aware of the vitriol directed toward the coloured one

    Does that have any ​bearing on this article or situation?

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    10 mil a year die of cancer with barely a mention. Some princess in an archaic midevil kingdom mentions she has it and the world must suffer 24/7 media noise about the poor dear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    the world must suffer 24/7 media noise about the poor dear.
    Vote with your "feet".

    Stop reading and boycott products advertized on said media.

    There you go Easy peazy

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    Who says he is reading it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Who says he is reading it?
    If he isn't exposed to it, I guess that his suffering is minimal

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