Thursday, October 20, 2005
A royal celebration...
The Australian media are once again fawning over Princess Thingy and Crown Prince – you know, that Danish bloke..... or was he Finnish?

Apparently they have had a baby. (Boy or girl?)

They are so happy in Tasmania – as the Princess once came from there once – that they are giving away some booties to all children born on the same day, as the happy couple once bought a similar pair, or something.

Forgive me for my vagueness. But I really couldn’t give a stuff.

But this raises an interesting conundrum. If I really didn’t care, I wouldn’t have taken the time out to write this, nor read the reports about such joyous news. The media’s defence - that they are just printing something that even your average run-of-the-mill republican wants to hear – holds.

So the truth is, I do care. I do care that people find this sort of news interesting. In fact, I find it pretty disturbing that people don’t find this kind of fawning deference insulting. Does nobody understand what the concept of Monarchy is saying about them? Are they happy to be labelled as inferior, second class subjects?

Call me a sanctimonious bore with a chip on the shoulder, but I reckon I would have made a great royal, if only I had been born into the right family.

But therein lies the problem…….

Links:

• Online Opinion
• The Queens-land celebrates
• Prince Charles decries 'Bloody peasants'

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