COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
It’s become a national
tradition to obsess over what the royals wear. But it’s time we left Meghan
Markle and her dress alone
Acting or not acting 'like a princess" makes no
difference because she is, in fact, not a princess but a "B" movie
actress.
She is about as much a princess as the little girls who
dress up in pink Disney princess costumes and carry around wands with plastic
gold stars on their tips. It’s just her wardrobe budget is a great deal bigger.
This entire business of princes and monarchy should come to
an end with Elizabeth's passing.
It is now approaching the level of a skit from Monty Python.
The original concept of princes was rationalized by the
notion that breeding gave us the fittest people to rule.
That idea is not only outdated by a couple of centuries, it
is plainly silly in light of this example, the current royalty.
The idea is, and always was, fake, only conceived to defend
and glorify an aristocracy which ruled solely because of what it owned.
Both Diana's boys are extremely mediocre, the one blandly
pleasant, the other, Harry, rather a narcissistic, unbalanced, and completely
unproductive man.
Their father, a rather tediously preachy man, is someone few
seem to want, although the very concept of monarchy requires that he be king
next.
Now, we throw into the mix a pretend princess, as indeed, to
some extent, Diana was herself.
