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Originally Posted by Jo of Palatine
And that's what annoys me: she doesn't want to become an actress "for real". She doesn't want to become a model "for real". She probably won't become a designer "for real" - you have to have a intensive education to be one (see Stella McCartney - she worked hard before she became what she is now!). She won't be an astronaut "for real" - all she wants is to fulfill her teenie dreams! And all of them! Let my Daddy throw a costume ball at Windsor Castle for the Crème de la crème! Let me party with mommy all around the world! Let me be a front-page model! That's the past and that's what her "gap" year seems to be all about.
A gap from what, please? From having grown up as a princess? From having to learn something in a most priviledged school? Harry and William at least spent time in the third world helping poor people there before they started doing their duty for their country as young recruits.
IMHo Beatrice Mountbatten-Windsor should do something to earn the right to be called HRH. In centuries past she would have been required to become a political bride and work for the sake of her old and new country as wife, mother and the first (or one of the first) ladies in her new homecountry. That could have turned out to be quite an unpleasant position, but that was the prize to be payed by a "princess".
Beatrice could already have shown a promise that she would use her status for other people than herself and her august circle. But did she? Instead I see only information about absolutely shallow doings. Her Royal "Highness"? It's laughable, isn't it?
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Whoever said that royals earn their royal titles? A hereditary monarchy doesn't work that way. Princesses are Princesses simply because their daddy was a Prince. That's all there is to it, no magic exam, no special courses, no entrance requirements to make sure they're Princess material. Its all a mistake of birth; if Beatrice's mother had been a princess then she wouldn't have been a princess. A lot of the rules around royalty are arbitrary and don't make any sense but there they are. And therefore Beatrice is a Princess. Unfair but true.
It makes royalty watching more interesting as far as I'm concerned. I like to see how people who were not chosen for their role based on ability make out of it. If people want a hereditary monarchy they have to take the good with the bad and the bad is sometimes a royal who is only a royal by accident of birth.