PRINCE HARRY AND WOUNDED VETS REACH SOUTH POLE AFTER THREE WEEK TREK

YAHOO NEWS : PRINCE HARRY AND VETS REACH SOUTH POLE news link.

(They were later helicoptered out as a great storm was approaching that would have stranded them there.)

PRINCE WILLIAM EXPECTED TO HAVE MISTRESSES? IS KATE HOLDING UP THE WEDDING ?

A note - June 12 2024

All these years later, the marriage of William and Kate seems quite successful with only one possible accusation that he might be too close to a certain other woman.

WE KNOW THAT SOMETIMES TABLOIDS MAKE UP STORIES... and we know there is so much speculation about PRINCE WILLIAM and KATE MIDDLETON, who, let's face it, have been dating/living together for years without CIVIL or RELIGIOUS MARRIAGE...

WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE KATE? We suppose she is in love with him... and he her, and also that it's about time for them to marry and have their own heir and a spare... KATE IS GETTING TO THAT AGE WHERE HER FERTILITY is on the decline... Yes there is time left for her to have a child. But the throne may just go from Queen Elizabeth to William and then?

Link now to an article in SHOWBIZ SPY... it says Kate has been told he will have mistresses and she will have to put up with them so she delayed the wedding.

PRINCESS MASAKO PRISONER OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUM THRONE

PRINCESS MASAKA is a Tragic True Story of Japan's Crown Princess. It's C 2006 by Ben Hills.

What's really interesting about this book is the information on how Japan's royal family has sustained itself through the accepted relationship of Emperor with courtesans. Princess Masaka is a highly educated woman (Harvard) who speaks several languages, lived in the United States and Britain as a child of a diplomat and rose to be a diplomat herself. But once Miss Owada accepted the proposal of the Emperor to be, her long time by now husband Naruhito, her life became more constrained than Princess Diana's ever was.

She was stifled and conformed until - it seems - she had a nervous breakdown. The crux of the matter was that her intelligence and all the things that attracted him to her were not of use to her as his wife. Her only role was a diminished one, to bear a son and keep the throne in the family. As a result of what was probably years of infertility treatments, she bore a beloved daughter. But the pressure on her to try again and bear a son went on. And she has thus been criticized terribly by the Japanese. A sister-in-law has had a son who is in line as a male. Divorce has been discussed. Her husband seems to be sticking by her and so he must love her. This couple is just too modern for the highest society of Japan. As Westerners we say SHAME ON JAPAN!

We hate to hear of any woman having her spirit broken because her whole life must revolve around her reproductive ability. However, this is a case where in the past the son of a courtesan would have eased the pressure upon her that broke her.

WILL JAPAN GET WITH IT AND ALLOW A FEMALE TO BE EMPRESS without having to be married?