Comments on: Royal News Links

By: lisa

lisa — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:59:11 +0000

Not to downplay the crime here but in the US talking on a cell while driving is also banned yet everyone does it from time to time. This is another example of how it must suck somedays to be Kate Middleton. She falls roller skating and it turns into hundreds of worldwide press articles, she uses her phone and gets caught. What will it be next, jaywalking? That IS illegal in England,right?

Although not a wise thing to do on Kate’s part, what we see from these situations is that she is human just like the rest of us who fall skating,get parking tickets and yes, talk on the phone while driving. I would personally prefer a princess or queen who I could identify with rather then one who spent her life in some glass bubble.

The REAL story here should be the papparazzi in front of her and on the side of her while she is driving. Seems like that little fact is being forgotten here. Maybe the headlines today should be “shame on the papparazzi pursuing Kate Middleton in her car”

By: B

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:37:40 +0000

It is pretty obvious that she is driving and on the phone at the same time.

I don’t think it is making a big deal of it at all actually, there have been several cases recently where people have been on their phones, crashed their car and some very young children or their parents have been killed. There is a lot of public opinion at the moment about dangerous driving, a couple of months ago a baby was paralysed for life due to a man driving irresponsibly. Nobody is above the law and there is no excuse at all. The law is in place for a very good reason and she broke it.

Alsgal is right she should have pulled over.

She really should have been more careful as she does not need this type of press at the moment. I’m sorry but I cannot excuse her at all, even if she was being pursued by the press (she has had it a lot worse before) and if was an official complaint or if the police did help her, there would have been a story about it. That would have actually been positive for her, the classic “Here I am to work, you are following me, do you see why I could not work in London”. But I very much doubt she was.

I don’t want her to be prosecuted for this, she was not stopped by the police at the time so it would be unfair. Let’s just hope that she has learnt her lesson and will be more careful in future.

By: Trixie

Trixie — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:09:42 +0000

On the PDA issue: I think William is simply VERY aware of the press attention on him and is almost obsessed with hiding his private life.
I recently read an old article talking about 10 year old (!) William hiding his letters at school so that they wouldn’t fall in the wrong hands whereas Harry’s were lying around everywhere.
It’s not just Kate that we do not have PDA pics with. He had girlfriends before her and we do not even have pictures of him with them at all. If I recall there’s not a single pic of him and Arabella Musgrave, not one of him as much as talking to Jecca though she’s been at least a close friend for almost 10 years and they frequently attended the same events together (BBBall 06, 08, birthday this year, van Cutsem wedding 05). There are only two or three pics of him talking to Holly Branson who’s a good friend as well. So the fact that he’s been pictured (though rarely) kissing and hugging Kate is already more then we have of him and any other woman.
In contrast there have been pics of Harry hugging and kissing other girls before he was with Chelsy so that’s not uncommon behaviour for him either. It’s just that neither had a steady public longterm g/f before so that it’s hard to compare but I think William would always act like he does with Kate and Harry always be as outgoing as he is with Chelsy.

By: Trixie

Trixie — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:00:35 +0000

…. the picture doesn’t show her driving though. For all we know she COULD have pulled over and stopped to make the call – or are we taking a paps word for it?

By: Rman

Rman — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:04:11 +0000

I’ve been reading some comments about the picture and they really think she should go down for being seen with a phone in her hand while driving. She may have been calling some security. They just making it a big deal. Just giving them something to talk about.

By: alsgal

alsgal — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:40:57 +0000

Oh dear. I can just hear all the complaints about Kate “thinking she is above the law.”

I am sure she was only calling to alert the police about the paps, although it probably would have been smarter, given the law, to have pulled over first.

By: Rman

Rman — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:32:52 +0000

She does seem to be a busy person now. It’s good to see her alittle, lol. They really want a royal story and want to get a photo of these people.

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:29:46 +0000

Hopefully she was on the phone calling the police on the papparazzi who were following her. Now that is dangerous..

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:28:11 +0000

Well at least they blended her license plate out. I guess we should be grateful for that much. But geez…so she talks on her cell while driving! Off with her head!

By: gracie

gracie — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:25:39 +0000

Lisa, I agree! I guess they got the photo and made a story around it. I wonder how long it took them to go for the cell phone angle?