Who Cares about Why Princess of Wales, Kate, Was Being Private after the Hospital?

My 40s began with my making a strategic choice to manage my energy and time in order to refine myself. I was and am driven to maintain certain worldview-oriented skills. A “casualty” of this (to some people’s minds) is me usually ignoring pop culture stories. Becoming no younger, and having misspent too much of my first decades, I put constraints on how I use my energy and wit.

But when I need mental pauses from writing and considering what sources to contact for news stories, I tune into the first 10-mins of “TMZ Live”. I catch stories, which many common people, want. I shaked my head at the shallow matters, which someone says are “important”. 

When newsrooms began in March to pay undue attention to Kate, the Princess of Wales’ absence from the public, I shrugged, “who give a sh_t”? There’s real news out there. 

The world seems entranced by, and public relations experts have shaken their heads about how poorly United Kingdom’s Kensington and Buckingham palaces handled social media postings about Princess Kate after she left London Clinic. 

After a royal member shared a recent post-hospital photo of Kate with her children, the curious discerned that it had been edited. With “help” from silent palaces over the span of day, the “why” descended into “what wild deductions can we leap to”? 

The gravity of news about dysfunctional Congress, ever more fascist Conservative antics conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and worse means that a sliver of pop culture provides a welcome release.