What do the dopers think of the Kate Middleton brouhaha

Though at least 3 of them spend most/all of their time in LA. That’s the critical point with respect to the OP (very vaguely at least, still a big sidetrack :slight_smile: ) Meagan and Harry are still definitely the target of paparazzi attention, but when you live next surrounded by the cream of the A list celebrities you are going to get far less attention.

Kate had a rather leviathan tattoo done on her midriff that reads, simply,

“BRING MEGHAN HOME!”

There. Now, I’ve spoilt it for all who wondered.

:wink:

They live like eight miles away from me as the crow flies. The Santa Barbara area is very well known among celebs for us not giving a shit about them and Montecito even more so. That’s why they like coming here but they aren’t going to get their ass kissed either. They are going to wait in line like the rest of us and if the reservations are full, they aren’t getting a table.

IIRC when Kate went in for surgery they announced she wouldn’t resume her duties until Easter.

Yes, I remember that, too. Entirely appropriate given that Kate has public duties.

Well, mostly that, but also a speeding intoxicated driver going 80mph through a concrete tunnel, and Diana not wearing a seatbelt. The only survivor was belted in the passenger seat (aka “the death seat”) and not coincidentally, the only belted occupant.

As I said, “if you believe some people”

I’ve never read the police report. I don’t think the French police ever said Diana and the guy were not belted.

All is neither here nor there.
Everyone thinks/knows/believes the wreck was caused by photographers wanting pictures.

I noticed in that video clip from The Sun they mentioned that the farm shop was in Windsor. So, mostly likely it was daddy’s shop.

When I was in Cornwall, I stayed at a B&B on a farm near Redruth. The wife ran a farm shop, but it was just a small shed with fruits and veg. Not like that fancy schmancy place in Bamford.

[nitpick] Actually, the French and the British investigations both concluded that none of the four people in the car was wearing a seat belt. The French speculated that Trevor Rees-Jones might had been trying to put his on at the moment of impact, but the British thought that unlikely. The issue was discussed at p. 421 of the British report. [/nitpick]

I believe you. I just never read or paid very much attention to official reports on the wreck.

It still doesn’t matter. The paparazzi on motorcycles were chasing them, the driver chose to try(whatever reason) and out run them. They wrecked and are dead.

I think the Duke boys might blame the press. Or so I’ve heard.

And the driver was drunk, too. But he’s dead, Al-Fayed who employed him is dead, and over-aggressive pursuit of stories is the only thing left to blame. Sadly, that over-aggressive nosyness is probably a permanent feature of human nature (see the phone hacking scandals and indeed all the obsessive conspiracy theories).

Hmm. That reminds me of how Knott’s Berry Farm started.

You’d better not be bloviating about how big my backside is.

Supposedly, Thomas Pynchon has successfully avoided photographers and reporters. (He was on The Simpsons, though.)

In the US the reporter celebrity relationship seems to be more symbiotic most of the time. That is until the celebrity gets raised up to a level of public frenzy that is mostly hard to predict. A lot of celebrities like living in NYC because no one gives a fuck who they are. They walk on the streets and are sometimes stopped by tourists but that’s about it. Right before the tree came down this year we went into the city to walk around and then catch a show at the Comedy Cellar. While we were waiting in the line to get in Matthew Gray Gubler (Criminal Minds) walked by. A couple of people on line talked to him then he just walked away.

David Bowie’s technique was to carry around a Greek newspaper. Then he could take the subway or whatever and nobody bothered him.

John and Yoko. Same.

With a paper bag over his head with a question mark on it, as I remember.

Except insofar as she provides an unfortunately irresistible excuse to recite the immortal verse

Tons of that going on all the way back as far as Biblical monarchical societies, of course:

See above. You just haven’t been paying attention to all the various ancient titles of nobility that make the hierarchy of modern British aristocracy look relatively streamlined by comparison.

Them funny Nazis liked their titles.

(Well, ranks. I guess)

Not Boss Hogg for once?