Kate Middleton: Neither space, nor time, nor privacy | Television

“We hope you understand that as a family we need space, time and privacy while I am in treatment.” Rarely has hope been so vain. How can Kate Middleton expect anyone to understand the basic needs of her family after what she created? Middleton is a very intelligent and lively woman, and she cannot therefore seriously hope to obtain this bravery which even the executioners do not refuse to prisoners at the foot of the scaffold. If the two-minute video in which he gives his explanations were not also a superb example of elegance and restraint, I would suspect that the phrase has a sarcastic charge, a mockery of the grumblings of this global herd. Kate Middleton has been denied space, time and privacy, and no one is sure she will be given it.

For some, the madness of the tabloids, the conspiratorial ferocity of rallies and the noise of tweeters temper our republicanism and bring out the monarchist that we did not suspect of living within us. If the democratic and republican spirit is a horde of chatterboxes who invent a thousand miseries about a sick woman, I become a subject and former regimentist NOW. There is no possible dilemma: between Kate Middleton – whatever her title and whatever she represents – and the scavengers who peck at her, I know very clearly for whom I would give up the reputation I do not have . A society incapable of giving a person some space, time and privacy to digest the news of cancer, curse God, grieve what needs to be grieved and think about how and when they will tell their loved ones. relatives and children; From a society that does not respect this, I say, we cannot expect the slightest dignity or the slightest grandeur. A company that does this isn’t worth a dime. Not even a Dickensian shilling.

Middleton’s restraint, clarity and dignity in this plane so simple and British at the same time, sitting on one of those benches which, in the United Kingdom, bear a plaque with the name of the person who paid for them or to whose memory they are dedicated, they are flowers thrown to a flock who will chew them in seconds. None of its members are worthy to bear its pure gaze. Let them at least listen to it in silence, if they can stop grumbling for two minutes.

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