In this vacuum, conspiracy theories abounded, not helped by a royal communications strategy beset by missteps.
But this didnt stop the speculation.
Combine this with the cult of modern celebrity and you have a particularly virulent strain of misogyny.
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This is complicated by the fact that we pay for them.
The transactional nature of the relationship between the monarchy is part of what has made this situation so strange.
None of this is Catherines fault.
“That this is a relatively young mother of three who has had to break difficult news to her children doesn’t seem to stop some people,” writes Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett.
Objectively, people know that princesses have bodies like the rest of us, but do they really know?
The essay is worth rereading in full.
Royal persons are both gods and beasts.
“Perhaps the fairy tale has been too successful, the transformation of an ordinary girl into a goddess too complete.”
Im a republican who believes the monarchy entrenches social inequality, but I cant help but agree with her.
I dont believe that people will learn anything from this, because the dynamic itself is too dysfunctional.
