It might be regarded as fulsome flattery, but I do like how she expresses and substantiates her thoughts.
I don't regard that as fulsome flattery at all, I regard it as a very sweet compliment and thankyou very much indeed.
Nevertheless, this sentence bothers me. I maintain that the problem is not William's inability to handle anything. He, perhaps like everyone in the world (maybe excepting people with certain mental or physical disabilities, though I'm not sure) has the ability and brains to handle what life serves him. It seems to me that his problem is in his methods rather than his abilities.
I guess it's because I make a living surrounded by people who are desperate for fame. They won't just sleep with a celeb, they actually work hard to get the press that William gets simply by falling out of a bar. Now, I don't want that myself, if it happens it happens and if doesn't it doesn't however if it did happen, I'd expect two things. 1) I'd like to think that I'd sustain my fame with something to be famous for and 2) I'd like to think that as long as I provided photographs for them, they'd respect my privacy. Now that could me being very naive or that could be me harking back to the good old days. However, I'd like to think that as I've put myself up.....oh dear, I'm not expressing this very well.
When I go out I put my make-up on, do my hair and expect to be stared at. It happens, I lap it up and for every one who wolf-whistles, there's ten more that will shout something obscene. But when I wake up in the morning a quite normal person and transform myself into this camp kitsch monster, I do it knowing that the world will see that and that whatever the world says about it, I must take. By my comment, I meant that William should do the same.
We all create an image, it's having the guts to take what you build in front of the mirror out into the theatre that is real life and taking every review you get - the good, the bad and the bloody fantastic. Who am I to patronise him but the image he puts out, will get good reviews and bad reviews and when they're good they'll be very very good and when they're bad - he accepts it and shows he's a stronger person by getting over it.
And whether he can do that or not, he has to accept that his image right now is bad. It's not O.J Simpson bad but it's bad. So the thing to do would be to keep his head down, avoid the nightclubs, attend a little charity afternoon or visit sick babies - something that makes old ladies go "Awwww". The thing to do is not to throw a queeny strop and say, "Don't photograph me, I'm special, I'm a Prince, it's my mum's inquest, wah wah wah". Unless of course he wants a P45 which in his case would come on some very nice embossed paper I'm sure but would mean that his little jaunts at Boujis would have to be put on hiatus and he'd have to consider getting a proper career like his girlfriend has.
The next day, his spokesperson reprimands the editors for buying photos of them leaving, taken, so said Paddy Harversen said, in conditions which made HRH feel threatened. In short, his methods and his timing make me wonder. I don't know what to think about it.
William put himself in those conditions. If I get beaten up because of the way I look, I don't feel threatened, it's self-induced and I accept that as a consequence of going against the norm. If William puts himself on his girlfriend's arm, in front of a nightclub, the night of his mother's inquest, where photographers always gather - he has no right to feel threatened.
And these awful places like Boujis, with their R&B tunes.... enough said. I hope William has not snorted vodka, and also hope he has had the sense to tell Harry not to do it again.
