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The royal break-up

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I t's all over the media outlets. I am stunned," blogs The Merry Royals. Stunned maybe, but still capable of copying and analysing every story written on the break-up of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

For royal bloggers, this is fascinating news when the only other stories of the week were "Denmark's Prince Joachim to be engaged?" and "Video of Dutch Prince Willem-Alexander presenting his new daughter".

There is, according to Royal Anecdotes, another person

  

happy for the distraction from his own "beleaguered" government: "Even Tony Blair is getting in on the act," is the latest anecdote. Blair "told the BBC that the couple should be allowed to get on with their lives". He even suggested that most royal stories are untrue. A while ago we would have believed him but then Di came along and confirmed them all.

The general consensus is that Kate Middleton had a lucky escape, but Marilyn's Royal Blog is tongue-in-cheek indignant: "It's so sad. She invested five years of her life... Not to mention all of the time we wasted speculating. And for what? Didn't we deserve a happy ending?" She then lists Kate's options including, "If she's feeling charitable, she could go out with Kevin Federline".

The bloggers are left to wonder why they broke up. One theory

 

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