do you all agree (hrh content)

[Fnaar]

I'll never understand the obsession with celebrity/royalty, or the attraction of seeing some fuzzy pics taken from 1/2 mile away of a flat-chested unremarkable-looking woman. Now, if she was cupping them, and pouting at the camera whilst giving a cheeky wink, it might be news. Otherwise... yawn.

 

[User482]

Q. What kind of bees make milk?



A. Boobees.

 

[gavintc]

Having just had a quick look on the internet, the pics having clearly been taken at great distance with a very powerful lens. They are pretty indistinct. The Royals will have presumed they were not overlooked and that this was a private area. Personally, I feel sorry for them - but it won't be the last time.

 

[tyred]

Camilla?

 

[Maz]

having briefly read the article in the UK papers about the incident, they were staying in the middle of no-where in a private villa

"No-wear" more like! Not 'alf! Yak-yak-yak-yak!

 

[ASC1951]

She signed up for it. She married arguably the most famous man on the planet, by association becoming arguably the most famous woman. With all of the first class international air travel, fine dining, free clothes, stylist, and a carefree existence with a freedom to study, work, however and wherever she wants...

I think you have a completely distorted idea of the life that the worthy Duchess will have. It will be an unrelenting round of public duties from now till doomsday, with hardly a moment's privacy (as we have seen) and all your public behaviour scrutinised. I wouldn't do it for a gold pig, nor would anyone with any commonsense. I quite agree, she signed up for it - but a carefree existence it certainly ain't.

 

[MacB]

Also, nobody is commenting on the fact that sunbathing topless is kind of trashy.

in the scale of overall trashiness involved here I don't think that even registers, and nor should it

 

[Scruffmonster]

I think you have a completely distorted idea of the life that the worthy Duchess will have. It will be an unrelenting round of public duties from now till doomsday, with hardly a moment's privacy (as we have seen) and all your public behaviour scrutinised. I wouldn't do it for a gold pig, nor would anyone with any commonsense. I quite agree, she signed up for it - but a carefree existence it certainly ain't.

I think you have a completely distorted idea of the level of choice involved. It's her choice to be as seen as she is. She could quite easily have the same level of attention heaped on her as Queenie's other half. She could choose to wear a pair of slacks everywhere, or the same dress a few times, or play the background a little. She doesnt. Which is fine, she gets all glammed up and courts attention for how she looks and dresses. This will bring the Paps out.

If she dressed like a politician (never a s3xy look), regularly gave more substance than style, and then still got hassled by the long lenses, she'd get a bit more sympathy from me.

I don't want to hear about it not being possible yadda yadda... It happens all the time. If you're about content more than packaging, you'll attract more of the healthy attention and less of the unhealthy. As a quick example, look at say Angelina Jolie or George Clooney in terms of what gets publicised. Rarely about what they wear or how they look, generally about what they're doing/supporting. Maybe slightly disingenuous to compare 40-50yr old film stars with a 30+ yr old Dutchess but I'm pushed for time.

Underlining and setting fire to all of that though, if all Papperazzi's, gossip columnists and trashy print media folks spontaneously combusted right now the world would be a better place.

 

[Herr-B]

They are pretty indistinct.

Kick a girl when she's having a bad day!

 

[MontyVeda]

if somebody took a photo of my mother, sister, girlfriend/wife or daugher whilst sunbathing in the privacy of their own back yard, then put those photos on the front page of a magazine with the headline "LOOK AT HER HOOTERS!" I'd be pretty pissed off. If my mother, sister, girlfriend/wife or daugher chose to have their breasts exposed on the cover of a magazine, I wouldn't be impressed but it's their body and their decision. Celebrity status doesn't change this.

 

[Noodley]

Right chaps, I propose I come to the rescue - my plan is simple:

The current Royal family give up all their wealth, palaces, privileges, duties etc
My family take over. Anyone can then feel free to take pictures of my moobs and publish then whenever and wherever they wish.

Sound like a deal?

 

[Scruffmonster]

if somebody took a photo of my mother, sister, girlfriend/wife or daugher whilst sunbathing in the privacy of their own back yard, then put those photos on the front page of a magazine with the headline "LOOK AT HER HOOTERS!" I'd be pretty ****ed off. If my mother, sister, girlfriend/wife or daugher chose to have their breasts exposed on the cover of a magazine, I wouldn't be impressed but it's their body and their decision. Celebrity status doesn't change this.

If someone gave your mother, sister, girlfriend/wife or daughter £1m a year with the explicit caveat that people would be 100% certain to put a photo of their hooters on the internet if they could get one, and then less than a year after being told that, it happened, who would you be p1ssed off at?

The invasion of privacy is disgusting, but there's a fairly simple way to guarantee that it wont happen.

 

[ComedyPilot]

The mock indignation of the British public is hypocritical in the extreme.

They clamour over each other like maggots to buy the dross magazines that print pap pics, and devour every pixel of celebs in whatever compromising position they happen to be pictured in, accompanied by the nauseating 'he says/she says' tittle-tattle story. The highest prize of all is the latest 'princess of their hearts', and they can't get enough, yet they seem to forget their purchases fueled the death of the last princess.......

I have no time for any royalty whatsoever, but I find the celeb obsession and glossy-mag pics hunger of this country to be frankly bile-inducing.

I'm off for a beer at a mate's house, then out to watch a band, in a pub, in real life, with real people who I will interact with.

 

[Noodley]

I'm off for a beer at a mate's house, then out to watch a band, in a pub, in real life, with real people who I will interact with.

Pubs are good for breasts popping out, take a camera...

 

[Black Sheep]

Having just had a quick look on the internet, the pics having clearly been taken at great distance with a very powerful lens. They are pretty indistinct. The Royals will have presumed they were not overlooked and that this was a private area. Personally, I feel sorry for them - but it won't be the last time.

having seen them, not only have they been taken with a very long telephoto lens, the kind normally reserved for sporting events or wild life photography, they are so pixelated from being enlarged that I estimate they were taken from a few football pitch lengths away.