The grief that unites the world

There is no drama in the world more highly publicized than that of the British monarchy.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
24 March 2024 Sunday 04:55
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The grief that unites the world

There is no drama in the world more highly publicized 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 prisoner's jumper, with blue and white stripes, the current Princess of Wales announced with the serenity of an angel that she had cancer. No fairy, but also no fairy tale, Kate Middleton offered a message of everyone's princess and not a pop diva or a soap opera star.

The Europeans, as fascinated as they were hungry, responded to the news with a sorrow 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 into the camera and detonated, with short sentences and a complicit look, the communicative universe. Not only a certain British press that always lives with the farce, but the society fed by dying networks of credibility, which created, an "even more difficult" in the delirious art of conspiracy theories.

Fake horns were embedded in her head because of her best friend, she became a video in "the out of focus woman" like Robin Williams' character in Woody Allen's Harry Potter, leaving a store with her husband , among other solemn speculations of the digital world. Meanwhile, the cannibalism of readers, listeners and viewers joined for a few weeks, more out of sentiment than intelligence.

Since the Princess of Wales underwent abdominal surgery, the information management of the British Royal House is identical to the explanations of Doctor Zaius to the people of his town in Planet of the Apes. That error in the forms is not enough to blame the monarchy for the disgusting idea that Middleton is popular consumption for being who you are and that he pays for it with his privileges and his dog. It's not like that because suddenly, the princess's sad eyes were ours, because this is not about the crown, it's about cancer, it's not about the Kings, it's about the children and this was not news but a mood. It wasn't the monarchy, it's one of ours.