I can't imagine what it would be like to see lies being printed about you and never being allowed to respond. A whole life of that.
I don’t know if you reached this part in the book yet, but when Harry was in the military getting ready for combat the second time, the military put him through preparations for potentially being captured. The instructors looked on social media and publically available websites and came up with really hurtful statements about the soliders’ families and girlfriends that could break them (similar to an actual POW situation).
The peer soliders were really freaked out by this and a couple had nervous breakdowns. For Harry they had trouble coming up with anything that he hadn’t read before in the media (or been shouted at by paparazzi). It hit home for him that the way the media was treating him was completely abnormal and it would traumatize most people.
No wonder our culture of misinformation is so entrenched.
Not only are there no industry standards for fact checking but the few books that are, are because the author paid for the fact checking themselves!
There are few if any repercussions if books are inaccurate so there is no incentive for publishers to make any changes to this. Books basically have never been fact checked. It’s always been on the authors to fact check them themselves, it’s written into their contracts.
Cookbook recipes largely aren’t tested either because authors get tiny advances and have to pay for that out of pocket too.
Do we need living monarchs and a monarchy for their old homes and whatever to be tourist attractions? It’s not as if tourists get to actually see them live in person at Windsor Castle. Do tourists go to a lot of events where they appear? Or are they just touring old buildings?
Like Mount Vernon is a tourist attraction. Washington’s been dead a long time. That doesn’t stop people from seeing his old home.
It’s the pageantry. The changing of the guard is a huge draw at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Palace and the horse guards are all really cool to see. Events like the Jubilee are really special and there are a fair number of those kind of events.
I don’t think it’s the same if none of that happens. It’s all part of it.
We participated in many Platinum Jubilee events in the UK and it really was amazing.
I think this is really off base. England has already faded into obscurity. It’s a past super power and over. I don’t think many Brits think they are superior to anyone. Actually more the reverse. Most Brits moan about how crap England is a lot. It’s like the exact reverse of living here.
Yes. That's why I said the monarchy is a reminder of a past golden age (for some brits).
My grandmother is almost 93 and has said something similar to this.