There is no drama in the world better promoted than that of the British monarchy. Turn each charge into characters from Barbara Wood’s novels, texts of illness, love and luxury. Imprisoned in a blue and white striped prisoner’s jumper, the current Princess of Wales announced with the serenity of an angel that she was suffering from cancer. Without fairies, but also without a story, Kate Middleton offered a message of everyone’s princess and not of a pop diva or a soap opera star.
We Europeans, as fascinated as they are stunned, have responded to the news with a sadness that mixes love, cynicism, sadness and devotion because we confirm, once again, that happiness cannot be bought with the jewels of royalty. After a ton of intolerable rumors absorbed by the black hole of cancer, Kate Middleton looked at the camera and detonated, with short sentences and a knowing look, the communicative universe. Not only a certain British press that always coexists with farce, but society fed by dying networks of credibility, which created an “even more difficult” in the delirious art of conspiracy theories.
She had fake horns embedded in her head because of her best friend, she became “the unfocused woman” in a video like Robin Williams’ character in Woody Allen’s Taking Harry Apart, leaving a store with her husband, among others. solemn speculations of the digital world. Meanwhile, the cannibalism of readers, listeners and viewers came together for a few weeks, more by feeling than by intelligence.
Since the Princess of Wales underwent abdominal surgery, the information management of the British Royal House is identical to Doctor Zaius’s explanations to the people of his village in Planet of the Apes. This error in form is not enough to blame the monarchy for the disgusting idea that Middleton is for popular consumption because you are who you are and that she charges for it with her privileges and his bodice. It is not like that because suddenly, the princess’s drooping eyes of sadness were ours, because this is not about the crown, it is about cancer, this is not about the Kings, it is about the children and this has not been news but a state of mind It wasn’t the monarchy, she’s one of us.
