I am ten thousand years late to the Kate Middleton story. People would ask me about Kate Middleton and I’d say something like, I hear William finally popped the question! This is the level of behind-on-the-news I am, where royals are concerned. I mean occasionally I will see a photo in which royal children appear, and they are at this point elderly, so presumably William and Kate have heirs. These people are my rulers now, I think; the Canadian citizenship ceremony involves promising allegiance towards King Charles, this I did, and there’s a line about how by extension you also do the same to his heirs and successors. Well. I want to do this. I am awaiting the proverbial royal visit to my office aka my couch. But
Hopefully she is fine. Possibly she is seriously ill. Possibly alien abduction. But you left out the very important possibility that she returns and we all think she's fine but it's really a shape shifter or Westworld style replicant.
I still can’t get over the cack-handedness of their press office. The internet has been awash with increasingly bizarre conspiracy theories for weeks while she’s out of sight recovering from some sort of surgical procedure, so let’s release an obviously doctored photo for Mother’s Day! That will obviously calm things down.
I don't care enough to think anything besides vaguely sorry for her, poor thing can't take a couple months off without setting the globe afire. I presume she looks sick or otherwise imperfect and doesn't want to subject herself to the inevitable firestorm of criticism.
From my absolutely ignorant distance, both geographical and cultural, I can't help the gut feeling that "the" Royal Family such as most of the globe understood it, ended with the demise of Queen Elizabeth. I am not even remotely a royalist but there's simply no comparing the dignity she personified to whatever is going on now. This is most probably inevitable in the age of 24/7 hyperconnectivity but all the same, I feel like Her Majesty was the las remaining original manuscript of something (whether good or bad is not for me to judge), and all we can see now is a set of increasingly blurry photocopies.
Hopefully she is fine. Possibly she is seriously ill. Possibly alien abduction. But you left out the very important possibility that she returns and we all think she's fine but it's really a shape shifter or Westworld style replicant.
And if she is, how many others might be also?
Just saying.
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I still can’t get over the cack-handedness of their press office. The internet has been awash with increasingly bizarre conspiracy theories for weeks while she’s out of sight recovering from some sort of surgical procedure, so let’s release an obviously doctored photo for Mother’s Day! That will obviously calm things down.
I don't care enough to think anything besides vaguely sorry for her, poor thing can't take a couple months off without setting the globe afire. I presume she looks sick or otherwise imperfect and doesn't want to subject herself to the inevitable firestorm of criticism.
From my absolutely ignorant distance, both geographical and cultural, I can't help the gut feeling that "the" Royal Family such as most of the globe understood it, ended with the demise of Queen Elizabeth. I am not even remotely a royalist but there's simply no comparing the dignity she personified to whatever is going on now. This is most probably inevitable in the age of 24/7 hyperconnectivity but all the same, I feel like Her Majesty was the las remaining original manuscript of something (whether good or bad is not for me to judge), and all we can see now is a set of increasingly blurry photocopies.