No privacy for the Queen
The Queen’s new ‘get-tough approach’ to paparazzi is something the media must resist.
As head of state and the nation’s first family, the Queen enjoys a special, rather peculiar, position in British society that brings an enormous amount of privilege. But more importantly, the monarchy is the linchpin of a constitutional settlement with which not everybody agrees, which makes it a far more political and controversial institution than it would ever admit.
The monarchy does not shy away from using the media, as it suits, to cast itself in the best light and so reinforce that constitution.
The paparazzi are most commonly seen extending their telephoto lenses to catch minor celebrities on beech holidays for down market tabloids and Princess Beatrice must have been surprised to find herself the subject of an upskirt shot (a photo the Daily Mail later removed from its website).
But without paparazzi stalking the royals we would not be exposed to activities that cast the royals in a less generous light; the Queen strangling birds or the Earl of Wessex apparently beating his dog.
Bad publicity for the monarchy, is good publicity for republicans.
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