In her 1976 memoir, No Life for a Lady, former Toronto Star columnist Lotta Dempsey wrote about the many seasoned, worldly journalists she had observed fall under the spell of British royalty.
“What is it? What does it do to you?” wondered one particularly acerbic New York syndicated columnist who had become inexplicably tongue-tied as she curtsied respectfully to Queen Elizabeth. Moments before, that same columnist had chided Canadian journalists for their “colonial” deference to royalty.
Dempsey, who covered several royal events for the Star in the 1960s, attempted to explain the mystique of the Royals and “the very special brand of reporting I call royal camp-following.
“Like it or not, you can’t buy or work or build your way to queenhood or kinghood,” Dempsey wrote “No amount of image-making, entrepreneuring, tub-thumping or manipulation can give you access to the throne of the Monarch of the Commonwealth of Nations.”
Indeed, the only way at all into “untouchable, unreachable” royalty is through marriage.Read More ...
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