You are so right. The British people will do anything the tabloids dictate, regardless of whether the Monarchy is popular or not. If one of the papers told them to collectively stretch a chicklet to the moon, the Brits would make the attempt en masse. They are that brainwashed.
In 1980, Murdoch's tabs fell in love with Diana because she sold papers, far more than any of Charlie's other angels, which is why he felt compelled to marry her. The press remained in her corner until well after her death, which accounts for the wariness the Royal Family feels towards the media now. Their mystique is gone and is largely buried with Diana, for whom Kate can never be a true replacement. If she ever puts a foot wrong or rebels as Diana did, the marriage break-up will come down squarely on her shoulders, not on William's, and the press and the public will let her have it.
The Windsor dynasty is riding high now because William and Kate are enormously well-liked (though not as beloved as the late adored one) and the Queen has remained a constant dignified matriarch for six decades. Long may she continue to reign. The people do not want the horribly aging Charles and the near crippled Camilla (whose own mother died of osteoporosis) on the throne, yet the great unwashed still cannot grasp the fact that the world never would have worshipped the goddess to begin with if he had not married Her Loveliness back in 1981. It wasn't just her beauty and breeding; his stature made her special in the eyes of the world and lent a genuine glamour to that remarkable beauty.
This was something that Diana (too emotionally damaged from a horrible childhood) failed to appreciate. If she had acknowledged this fact, Charles might have been more concerned with her emotional well-being and might never have given Camilla another thought. But the media and public had to kick the s--t out of him everyday from day one and this did not help matters. The marriage was doomed from the start because the newspapers (and the people that read them) were as ungrateful as Diana. Charles had given them the dream princess that they wanted, and as they say, no good deed goes unpunished. The Princess was more than happy to rub his nose in his bad fortune (and bar him from her bed at night) all the while complaining that he wouldn't sleep with her.
Books written by Penny Junor, Sally Bedell Smith, Lady Colin Campbell, and Robert Lacey all confirm the theory that Diana pushed Charles away, not the other way around. Lacey has revealed in his own 2002 tome Monarch that Diana boxed Charles's ears when he said his prayers at night, a painful reminder of his nightmarish schooldays at Gordonstoun when he was pelted in the dorm and prevented from getting a good night's sleep. Junor's new book on Prince William is out today on the market and it will reveal that all this crap everyone reads on supermarket shelves about Camilla hating Kate is garbage designed to sell rags and keep the Monarchy is disrepute. The day before yesterday we saw the U.S. networks go to town over the Jubilee flotilla, and they were at it again today. Americans still find the Queen and her family more fascinating than these crooked politicians we have here who have looted our once great country and left it in ruins after three decades of de-regulation.
Diana may be dead, but she has an unprecedented place in history do to who she was so ambitiously desperate to marry in 1980. She wasn't dragged kicking and screaming into the marriage, and neither was Waity Katey who stuck to poor Wills for nine years like barnacles to the ship's hull. This fact speaks volumes because Kate knew what kind of a family they were before she fell in love with William and she was already older by that stage than Diana was when she married Charles at the age of barely twenty. Imagine: waiting nine years to marry! If he were anyone else (even another European prince) I doubt she would have managed it. Yikes.
It was obvious that the Palace wanted Wills to make her wait as long as possible to test her motives and make sure that she wasn't an instant megastar like the young Diana, or interested in becoming an icon. The longer the courtship was dragged out, the more the media could feed the public month after month, year after year, during which they just grew tired of the relationship and just wanted a wedding. Whereas with Diana, the public wanted to know everything right from the beginning, then for years on end and never got satisfied, because to begin with she was just an innocent girl, albeit a very ambitious, well-bred one. The media was on to a winner and they milked the fairytale for all it was worth, killing the golden goose and long before that making life miserable for the dupe they had never had any respect for (even when he was a carefree bachelor) and hoodwinked into marriage in the first place.
If Charles had been clairvoyant, do you suppose he would have married Diana? Not likely, but if he had not, I doubt he would have gone back to Camilla. Marriage to someone like his second cousin Amanda Knatchbull might have prevented the royal catastrophe, although I think it was also a mistake for Andrew to marry Sarah Ferguson, a promiscuous, ungrateful bimbo if there ever was one. That's when things really started to go downhill for the Monarchy. She was as ambitious as Diana ever was and has paid as horrible a price simply for showing "normal human emotions", as the fiercely left-wing, anti-Monarchist journalist Julie Burchill once said in defense of her idol Diana.
Let's hope that Wills and Kate are a true love match so that the media cannot spoil things and ruin their lives as they did Charles and Diana's. Fleet Street must be sh---ing bricks because there obviously is no real money to be made with the happily-ever-after scenario they are faced with now. All they have to look forward to is Kate making babies and changing her wardrobe. No scandalous headlines and numerous boyfriends popping out of the woodworks. I think (and hope) Kate will have more dignity and class (not to mention good luck) than the tragic iconic child-woman who preceeded her, and at the proverbial seven-year-itch mark in 2018 Kate will be older than Diana was when she died. How's that for an irony.
God Bless Her Majesty the Queen. Long may she continue to reign. Even Diana could never have matched that. Amazing.
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