A lot would debate your last sentence!
Most of the news is just depressing, so there isn’t much merriment possible with it. This really doesn’t matter. I’d have dealt with the PR fallout differently, but then I’m not a royal.
I think there is a very real implication of effect on public trust (which is really the only real power the RF have now). These sort of bizarre, increasingly poorly handled situations—in this case involving the next Queen Consort, King of England, and his heirs (perhaps very soon due to HM’s own serious health issues)—undermine what value the RF actually provide at this point, and create unnecessary tensions during an already tense time. It is an even more shambolic (though, hopefully far less impactful) version of the RF/RH early undertakings with Diana.
And that is coming from someone that would end the monarchy tomorrow if I had the power. And we could then all agree this is no more or less important than anyone else going through the same events.
I’d say that as a ‘brand’ the Royal family represent continuity and stability to the nation. (At large, not of course to every single individual).Public trust in what, did the public vote for them, am I missing something? People regularly argue that they are nothing more than entertainment, a private family there for show and amusement of the country. Can't then have it both ways then, demanding public trust and explanations for everything going on, but trivialising it generally. Or wanting them cancelled like a netflix show because you don't like an episode or have had to wait for a new one.
I don't get how anyone can have an overarching stance like your last line (which I kind of agree with), and then treat a story really just created by the public and wild speculation, like it something bigger and highly significant to the general punter.
I have spoken to the nature of the public trust that the RF is meant to maintain (or degrade) elsewhere in the thread, so I will refrain from repeating that treatise. @Plays By Sense Of Smell does an exceptional job speaking to it in his reply to your question.Public trust in what, did the public vote for them, am I missing something? People regularly argue that they are nothing more than entertainment, a private family there for show and amusement of the country. Can't then have it both ways then, demanding public trust and explanations for everything going on, but trivialising it generally. Or wanting them cancelled like a netflix show because you don't like an episode or have had to wait for a new one.
I don't get how anyone can have an overarching stance like your last line (which I kind of agree with), and then treat a story really just created by the public and wild speculation, like it something bigger and highly significant to the general punter.
Both pippa and Kate are very slender. Whoever that is they have extreme swelling to their face. Steroid side effects maybe ? Swelling from facial reconstruction after a broken jaw/heavy beating to the head ? It's a fucking weird photoIsn't that just Pippa in the car not Kate ?