[1] Britain has met the heir who will certainly
change the face of monarchy for ever. Kate
and William’s son enters this world as a Royal
Highness, destined to be king of his country.
[5] Though his mother is a Duchess, the title
........ disguise the fact that there has never
been a royal child quite like Kate’s. For while
William descends from a line of monarchs,
this baby boy’s maternal grandparents once
[10] worked for British Airways and now run their
own company.
This new prince will become the first
British monarch with working-class blood
running through his veins. Monarchy these
[15] days is a precarious business, and increasingly
hard to justify – not only in terms of the funds
taxpayers donate to the Crown, but in a wider
world in which royal families seem ever more
anachronistic. This baby has arrived at a time
[20] of profound social change and evolution –
........ is why I believe a royal child with
middle-class antecedents can provide the
social alchemy that will secure the future of
the House of Windsor.
[25] William and Kate, a modern couple, lived
together quite openly for several years before
their marriage, a sensible decision condoned
by the Queen, which ........ been seen as
unthinkable less than a decade earlier. This
[30] was after prince Charles had moved in with
his divorced former mistress, Camila Parker
Bowles, a situation that would have been
equally unacceptable a few years ago.
All this evidences a rapidly evolving
[35] monarchy. Who would have suspected that
the Queen would have been seen pretending
to parachute into the Olympic stadium with
James Bond? And who ........ predict how far
this process of evolution will have travelled by
[40] the time the new prince reaches the throne?
From the pit to the Palace in three
generations? Surely it is the perfect fairytale
for a nation that grows more middle-class by
the year.
Adaptado de: THORTON, Michael. A very middle class baby who will secure the future of the royal family. Daily Mail. 22 jul 2013. Disponível em: < http://www. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2374279/Kate-Middletongives- birth-middle-class-Royal-baby-boy-securemonarchys-future.html>. Acesso em: 06 set. 2013.
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