A Royal Mess

As I said at the outset of starting this blog, I don't think it will be solely book reviews, but I don't think I'll be including anything personal here.  I do want to branch out a bit to include other subjects and topics of interest to me.  Right now I'm seeing it as kind of a place to state my opinion on things that get me worked up, either in a good way or a bad way.

Yesterday I came across something that got me quite worked up.  I just recently became interested in the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.  I used to be quite interested in the British Royal family, mostly because my mom is.  I even had a crush on Prince William when I was a teenager.  And I knew they'd gotten engaged last fall and thought it was great, but didn't delve into it further.

Until yesterday.  For some reason I started searching out information about them, watching some interviews with them, reading a little about their wedding plans.  As everyone says, it's so 'fairytale.'  She is a commoner, and it's every little girl's dream to marry a prince, so I just find their story very quaint and it almost makes me giddy for her.  But after following some links I found this video. It disgusted me and made me so angry!  I have no idea who to get angry at, but it makes me sick that she has to be the target of so much hate because she's marrying a prince or even just because she's in the public eye.  Whoever made this short video found every picture of her taken at the worst moments to vilify her.  They used pictures taken mid-blink and stated she's a drunk and a party girl.  They took pictures of her getting out of cars wearing a skirt and zoomed in on her private area, I'm assuming to show that she's raunchy, though you can't see anything, and it does happen to be extremely difficult to get out of a low vehicle while wearing a skirt and still seem ladylike!  The video just smacked of immaturity and lack of facts.  Poor Kate.

Like I said I just began to be interested and read stuff about them, so I don't know if she really is a party girl, or if she has bad work ethic as some people are viciously plastering all over.  I don't know if she will devote herself to humanitarian work like Princess Diana, but it seems cruel to constantly be comparing her to her husband's late mother.  I like to imagine their marriage will last, but I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't; who could be exposed to those kinds of attacks on a constant basis and not have it affect them?

I've learned that when I peruse the internet and read opinion columns/blogs or comments on news stories  it gets me highly worked up; maybe irrationally so.  And yet I seem to find things like this everywhere.  Is humanity as a whole just getting nastier to each other?  Or are we seeing it more because public forums and technology are growing?  Maybe a combination of both.  Either way, things like this make me sad for famous people.  Some of them choose to be famous (though still don't deserve some of the treatment they get) but someone like Kate Middleton, for example, just happened to fall in love with a prince.