09-18-2012, 07:39 PM
So I keep hearing all this news about the royal couple and how this is unfolding and while I don't condone people taking pictures of their partially naked bodies without them knowing or consenting (the right to privacy that generally prevails here), I have seen both that series of photos and the ones of Harry and found both lots to be completely uninteresting... I couldn't care less.
Although I hope the Royals are not doing this for the money but to implement their right to privacy, we in France do not consider it shocking for a (young) woman to sunbathe with her breasts showing. In fact we couldn't care less. This may explain the cultural difference in treatment. The British might treat them with more respect because they are THEIR royal family. That much can be admitted.
The fact that the pictures were taken from a great distance in a secluded place shows that the sensationalist press is trying to make some money on the Royals' "embarrassment", and now said press has been condemned. Serves them right.
Once more, I'll stress, those pictures are not only uninteresting, they are also poor quality and quite boring and certainly not much or a novelty. But I'll also add that we don't have any more royals in France and so some don't really care to treat them any differently from any other Tom, Dick and Harry. For us, they are just celebrities like any other celebrity.
I must also say that tracking the Royals down as the paparazzi press tracked down Princess Diana is in poor taste, but do they deserve to be treated any differently from any other People who are in the Public Eye? I don't have the answer to that. Now, at least, they have stamped their feet and banged their fists on the table. It might happen again, or maybe they'll get more respect from now on. Nothing is certain. Maybe it'll take them being King and Queen before that kind of respect is thrown their way.
Although I hope the Royals are not doing this for the money but to implement their right to privacy, we in France do not consider it shocking for a (young) woman to sunbathe with her breasts showing. In fact we couldn't care less. This may explain the cultural difference in treatment. The British might treat them with more respect because they are THEIR royal family. That much can be admitted.
The fact that the pictures were taken from a great distance in a secluded place shows that the sensationalist press is trying to make some money on the Royals' "embarrassment", and now said press has been condemned. Serves them right.
Once more, I'll stress, those pictures are not only uninteresting, they are also poor quality and quite boring and certainly not much or a novelty. But I'll also add that we don't have any more royals in France and so some don't really care to treat them any differently from any other Tom, Dick and Harry. For us, they are just celebrities like any other celebrity.
I must also say that tracking the Royals down as the paparazzi press tracked down Princess Diana is in poor taste, but do they deserve to be treated any differently from any other People who are in the Public Eye? I don't have the answer to that. Now, at least, they have stamped their feet and banged their fists on the table. It might happen again, or maybe they'll get more respect from now on. Nothing is certain. Maybe it'll take them being King and Queen before that kind of respect is thrown their way.
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