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Kate Middleton maintains normalcy despite media circus
By April MacIntyre Jan 10, 2007, 15:35 GMT
Holiday in the sun- Prince William and Kate Middleton on Boat in Ibiza © Photorazzi
Americans and their British cousins feel as if they're watching a repeat of "Diana mania" news from over 20 years ago.
The growing British tabloid three-ring circus is circling around a mild-mannered 25 year-old girl, Kate Middleton, who happens to be Prince Williams' girl.
The Prince is well aware of his Mother's history with the media, and has appealed to the press to leave his girlfriend Kate Middleton alone.
The rumble in British press is the pair could announce their engagement at any time, and the growing army of intrusive paparazzi has further provoked William, and caused the Royal Family barristers to consider legal action for harassment.
Most recently, Kate Middleton left her home on her 25th birthday and there were five TV crews and more than 20 photographers instantly surrounding her.
An agreement with the royals to remain at a specific distance to allow Kate to get to her car "was broken when a TV crew broke ranks and bolted across the road, causing a stampede as others joined," claimed the Australian Herald Sun.
A palace spokesman said, "Prince William wants more than anything for the paparazzi to stop harassing her."
Insiders say William is worried about his girl, and the potential for any possible harm to come to her from overzealous snappers.
If you are old enough to remember the "fairytale" that was Charles and Diana, their courtship and pomp and circumstance-filled nuptials dominated the news in 1981. Crowds upward of 600,000 people filled the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer on their wedding day.
Many Americans and Canadians stopped work and were glued to the television, and the British got a holiday to enjoy the festivities.
Charles and Diana were married before an invited congregation of 3,500, and an estimated television audience of 750 million worldwide, making it the most popular program ever broadcast. It was a breathtaking ceremony, and even the most anti-royal types were mesmerized by the spectacle of the British Monarch's steeped in tradition ceremony. No one does it like the English.
"A picture of Kate pointing at a camera and clearly saying 'sod off' is clearly worth more on world magazine markets than one of her walking sedately down a street," senior Times photographer Chris Harris said, reported the Herald Sun.
Kate's parents have hired the same law firm that services the royal family in hopes to sober up the royal wedding-mad snappers and get them to behave.
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Why does anybody really care?
Rog
Grand Rapids, MI
Roger,
no idea why they care, but to be honest, who cares why they care.
Why someone cares either way has no bearing on the fact that people,regardless of popularity or fame, deserve a private life.
But unfortunately it's obviously what a big slice of society wants, otherwise there wouldn't be a demand.
It's a shame really, even more for her because she wouldn't even be hounded if it wasn't for who she was involved with. Dont know anything about her, so its nothing personal, just stating a fact.
Sensationalism is born of demand. If sheep didn't buy tabloids, none of this would be a problem.
Unfortunately, they do. Welcome to the world of capitalism. Advertisers will support the periodicals that sell the best. Newsprint doesn't turn much profit anymore, so to get the black ink blacker still, media companies will provide the news that sells the most copies at the stands.
The fools are a far greater market than those sick of sensationalism.
It's profitable, and so it lives on.
She's not the first woman to endure the press; haps she should make the best of the situation and come up with some witty quips for them.
many are simplistic, and the idea of a 'Prince' fallng for a 'regular' girl unfortunately dots the daydreams of many. Plus, the English really do put on a good show when they dress up and get all royal-ified...
They care because his mother died due to this crap. Shifty freelance jerk-offs that just want a snapshot to sell. They should try to get real jobs at the media driven scumlands that they sell their pics to.
How about working with the dolts that hound her.
Offer, for a price of course, to provide group or exclusive photo ops in a controlled environment, under contract, with the proviso that she be left alone for a period of time.
Use the proceeds to sue the pants off anyone violating the contracts, or hire mean , beefy body guards to beat off the flies, so to speak.
At least he knows she's not cheating on him. Or maybe he does -- I don't follow these things. It's kind of hard to complain about cameras when London has them on every street corner.
I remember when a photographer, amid a crowd, asked Princess Diana for a really good shot. 'It will pay for my kids' tuition this year.' She mentioned that these kinds of requests she found hard to turn down.
Poor girls. Poor princes.
sounds like a job for the SAS
Why don't the stupid,stupid idiots who are suppossed to be looking after Kate just use :-
'Protection from Harassment Act 1997'.................problem solved,
or havn't the Plonkers even heard of this Law yet?
Pity this Law wasn't about, when Diana was still alive......
Those steamy little photographers following Prince William's lady are greedy for money and should be rounded up and sent to Greenland for three years with nothing more than a 50mm lens. No camera, just the lens. Hopefully this lady will endure.
Bosco Boyle
Portland, Oregon USA
Princess Di's death was not totally a result of 'this crap' ie. hounding by the paparazzi...She actively and manipulatively courted the media to get at Prince Charles and win sympathy, and her affair with an Arab playboy, which again was calculated to upset the royals, contributed to her tragic death
why doesant she just wear a mask duh .
I just hope for William and Kathy sake that they really love each other. Otherwise this marriage will be just as sad as Princess Diana's to Prince Charles. But then they are adults and we all have to live with that.
There is no such word as 'Normalcy', except maybe in Dubbya's mind. Please stop using this non-word. Thanks.
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the quality or condition of being normal, as the general economic, political, and social conditions of a nation; normality: After months of living in a state of tension, all yearned for a return to normalcy.
[Origin: 1855–60; normal + -cy]
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Kate Middleton is very shrewd to have her lawyers spy on the paparazzi!!!! I am a bit surprised though if she really does believe herself to be a 'private' person given that the fact that she is dating Prince William and is considering marriage to the future King of England. There was some rumour that she hung up a picture of Prince William in her room when she was a teenager. It looks like she gets what she wants!!
She is dull,somewhat plain,looks older than her early 20's and more like Camilla than Diana. She is always available for William; She seems to have no life outside of William. I can't see her being on the level of the current Queen Elizabeth. Kate has behaved quite common in some ways,shacking up with William during University and posing in her Undies. Queen material,NOT.
It is too bad when people like this have to put up with constant media in their face at every turn. Not the same as some entertainers who love the limelight and do everything they can to entice the camera. Maybe if the public would stop giving all of this so much attention, it wouldn't be so productive for the papparazi.
Ooh. Someone mentioned bodyguards. I notice the US President doesn't get hounded like this. He has loads of men-in-black surrounding him and forming a decent-sized exclusion zone Maybe big muscle and the real threat of bodily harm will change the mind of the paparazzi.
she is too skinny has she heard of breast implants
Public figures should only have the press after them when they are at a public event, or they behaving illegally. Otherwise, it should be illegal to harass themwhen they are conducting their private life. I mean, if some guy was shooting photos over my backyard fence, I could have him arrested.
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DaveJan 10th, 2007 - 18:42:31
The prince will need several hundred lawsuits to
make the point. Now would be a good time to start.
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