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The Missing Royals In The Age of Misinformation: Would The Late Queen Have Been as Useless as Her Son In Crises Management?
Yet another reason for the abolition of the monarchy.
The head of the firm is missing in action and has been for a short minute.
And the next in line to the throne, whose wife is recovering from an serious operation, has also stepped back from interfacing with the public, leaving a vacuum which no one from the immediate family has been able to fill adequately.
In normal times, when there was no such thing as social media, there would have been no problems with this dynamic.
But these aren’t normal times.
Misinformation, whether it is from Russian agents or It is from enthusiastic young guns online, has taken a life of its own and this reality shapes the world in which we live today.
Twitter has been abuzz for a number of days on the subject of the royal family, offering a number of extraordinarily absurd takes ranging from King Charles and Kate’s death to Charles’s imminent decision on appointing a regent, owing to William’s slaughter of his wife.
There was also talk of the Prince of Wales impregnating his mistress, which led to his wife abandoning her matrimonial home.