Duties and Roles of the Princes

[Duke of Marmalade]

[quote=Skydragon;678025]

Diana wasn't drunk but she was hounded to her death by the same sort of people who are now hounding William, Harry, Catherine and Chelsy.

Please you can't be serious. Nobody hounded Diana to her death, she died because her driver was drunk and she did not wear a seat belt. No paparazzi was around when the crash happened. Besides, the paps followed Diana all the time, sometimes she was pleased to see them, sometimes she wasn't, she used them for her own purposes and was used for theirs. Give and take.

They are not begging to have their picture taken.
Diana wasn't drunk when she had to fight her way through a media scrum before she became engaged. The media are out of control and it is time they were regulated by other people.

Regulated by who? It's a close step to censorship, isn't it
Princes' William and Harry's (and not to forget Clarence House) dealing with the media is simply poor and unprofessional.

[Al_bina]

Skydragon does an excellent job in selecting and posting articles.
It is not surprising that Kate Middleton has started getting the negative and sarcastic remarks from the press. She probably knows what she does and what impact such unfavourable press may have on her relationship with Prince William in the future. Hopefully, she has taken a useful piece of advice from Prince William’s stepmother. I have to confess that Miss Middleton and her mother do convey an image of foxes on the hunt for a royal engagement ring to me. I can not tell anything about the other Miss Middleton since I have not seen her pictures.
The fact that she is his long-term girlfriend, who has been introduced to Her Majesty, does not necessarily ensure that she will become a royal bride. As far as I have understood, there is a consensus of opinions in this respect.

[Duchess]

Originally Posted by BeatrixFan

I dont really care whether they're social climbers or not actually, I just think the name is fabulous. I'm one of those people who gets goose pimply when they about the Mitford Sisters - I just love the name. So whether it fits or not, I think the Wisteria Sisters is a very glam thing indeed. Faaaabulous.

good point...i do like the name too.

[zhontella]

Originally Posted by Duke of Marmalade

Please you can't be serious. Nobody hounded Diana to her death, she died because her driver was drunk and she did not wear a seat belt.
No paparazzi was around when the crash happened.

Alleged by some.

Originally Posted by Duke of Marmalade

Besides, the paps followed Diana all the time, sometimes she was pleased to see them, sometimes she wasn't, she used them for her own purposes and was used for theirs. Give and take.

It didn't start out give and take. They followed Diana all the time no matter what. She made the best out of the bad situation given to her and tried to turn it into something positive. Who can blame her? I hope William and Kate will follow her good example.

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[BeatrixFan]

Well, Diana did encourage the press by arranging for journalists to be in the right place at the right time. William must be following her example to go to somewhere where he knows the press are waiting for celebs to pap. Inheritance of stupidity and self-pity are of no use to man or beast.

[CasiraghiTrio]

Originally Posted by zhontella

It didn't start out give and take. They followed Diana all the time no matter what. She made the best out of the bad situation given to her and tried to turn it into something positive. Who can blame her? I hope William and Kate will follow her good example.

I hope her sons do not follow her example in regards to the paparazzi. I don't say this because I completely agree with Skydragon or BF. I don't 100% agree. I think both Henri Paul (the drunk, reckless driver) and the paparazzi (egging him on) were responsible for the crash. And I think that the paparazzi in London, especially that Marc forgot-his-surname-and-glad-to-forget-it, because he is a disgusting pig of a man who would have chased Diana to the dogs.... well, let's just say, that for all of Diana's manipulations, she didn't deserve to be hounded by the paps like she was. No one deserves that.
It may have been give and take like Skydragon said, but it was definitely more take on the part of the paparazzi.
Having said that, I do not wish to see William or Harry follow Diana's example there. It is a dangerous way to go. Dangerous and foolish. I love Diana, God rest her soul, but she was foolish about the media. Let her sons follow her example in ways where she truly was a champion, but not in this way. They will do better to follow the royal example in regards to the media. The royals are alive!

[cde]

Originally Posted by zhontella

Alleged by some.


It didn't start out give and take. They followed Diana all the time no matter what. She made the best out of the bad situation given to her and tried to turn it into something positive. Who can blame her? I hope William and Kate will follow her good example.

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You want William and Kate to follow Diana's "good example"? So your saying if W+Kate get married and the marriage doesn't take, Kate should talk to the press in great detail about why it didn't work?
IMO I don't see how Diana talking to the press was really something positive. Her talking to the press pushed her divorce which she said she didn't really want, her talking to the press just made them pursue her even more which indirectly led to her death.Yes she should have been wearing the seatbelt and yes, the driver shouldn't have been drunk but he probably wouldn't have been speeding like he did if he wasn't trying to outrun the photographers. The press are vultures who can't be satisfied. If William and Kate follow anyone's press examples, I would hope they would pick BP.

[Duchess]

imo, i don't think diana's relationship with the media was necessarily a good thing. sometimes it worked for her - but mostly it worked against her. it worked when she wanted to downplay anything charles was doing but it ultimately failed her. in the beginning she chose to cooperate with the photographers and that in turn led them to expect it from her thus becoming overly comfortable - paps felt it was their god given right to photograph her in any and all circumstances whether public or private. she was naive enough to think that she could make it stop whenever she wanted but now we know that didn't happen. i think william and catherine need to take a long hard look at how they live their "public" moments. they probably won't like what the end up having to do - plan entrances and exits so as not to draw attention, even limit their outtings. the bar has been set very high as to what the public wants from it's media sources so celebrities are going to have to learn new ways of protecting themselves.

[Russophile]

Is Harry still active in the military? I was surprised when he was denied to go to Afghanistan that he ended up back in England and I haven't seen stories of him of late doing any military activity.

[CasiraghiTrio]

He is still active in the army but I think all of his squadron is in Iraq, so maybe that leaves him without much to do (for the army). I mean, I do remember from my own time in the navy, when any part of the squadron is deployed, the home team doesn't have much to do, because the deployed take almost all the equipment, planes (in his squadron's case, tanks not planes), and especially in a warzone, that would be the priority mission. They would have a skeleton crew back home. Of course they can do support stuff, but I imagine that's not very time consuming. I don't know though.