Texas school shooting: Duchess of Sussex lays flowers at site of massacre
The Duchess of Sussex has laid flowers at the site of a school shooting in Texas in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.
Meghan placed a bouquet of white roses tied with a purple ribbon at a row of crosses put up in memory of the victims in Uvalde.
The blooms were laid near the cross of 10-year-old Uziyah Garcia, which had the words "you will be missed" written on it, the Los Angeles Times reported.
It just doesn't work - she is too obviously in the 'look at me' business. Tacky and best left to those who can do it without the distasteful aura of promotional baggage.
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To complement her marketed persona - woke, caring, anti-racist and democrat - you would expect her to be strongly against guns. Wouldn't knowingly allow any to be near her, etc. But this sits rather awkwardly with Harry's insistence that they receive free protection while in the UK. (What are they going to protect them with? Gentle persuasion and Tai Chi?) And she can hardly say that there are no guns at their Montecito residence, as that would invite someone to take a pop at them. Interesting dilemma for the poor woman.
The Monarchy has the same self-inflicted problem as the established Church - they've deliberately stripped away the aura of mystery and otherness that once accompanied them and now that they've revealed themselves as just ordinary and not particularly impressive people there's really very little point to them any longer.
The Mail has a photo of her with her bodyguard. I assume he carries a couple of automatics.
So we are expected to believe that she made a 2,500-mile round trip by private jet in order to visit the site ‘in a private capacity’ and ‘didn’t want to be recognised’?
I can’t help wondering whether, years ago, she heard Harry was ‘in line for the throne’ and interpreted it as meaning he’d get his turn eventually - after all, America has no tradition or legal convention of inheritance by eldest sons. Having flounced off back to the USA in a fit of pique, she’s now busy carving a niche for herself and Harry as an alternative US-based royal family, complete with public appearances
To imply that conveying her condolences and support in person justified the journey (and the inevitable press sensation) suggests a level of arrogance bordering on the pathological.
Mark - probably a more common view than she realises too,
Sam - she was bound to have had an armed bodyguard too.
Anon - and it's been going on for decades. Too many of them cannot keep the mystique going, don't seem to know how. Charles certainly doesn't.
dearieme - he's bound to carry something like that.
Macheath - I'm sure you are right about her assumption that Harry was ‘in line for the throne’. Yes, her level of arrogance does seem to border on the pathological - she comes across as a nightmare.
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