[lit-ideas] What's in Kate?
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:42:14 EST
A princess by any other name. There was a feature in yesterday's newspaper
("dutchess", etc.) about the title that Kate (nee Catherine) will attain
when she marries Prince William. Officially, she should be
Princess William of Wales
but the reporter was saying that should not sound 'feminine' (sic) enough.
The Queen can decide, and she may opt for "Princess Catherine". But Hugo
Vickers was objecting that
Princess Catherine
seems to 'entail' (rather than 'implicate' -- I use Grice's jargon) that
Ms. Middleton is the daughter of Prince Charles, not his daughter-in-law.
The reporter is saying, rudely, that it all boils down to this problem that
Prince Charles is _not_ king. If he were, Prince William would have been
made Prince of Wales and thus Kate would be, like Diana was, "Princess of
Wales".
---- Vickers was quoting "Princess Michael of Kent" as an antecedent for
"Princess William of Wales".
Etc. Quite a charming discussion. Of course totally irrelevant for the
non-Griceian, etc.
Speranza
At the Swimming-Pool Library
pondering on this and that
Bordighera, etc.
------ "What's in Romeo? Romeo by any other name would smell so sweet"
(Juliet, in Shakespeare's homonym play).
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