Moving house is always a stressful business, but if you’re currently trying to pack up your home or chivvy your solicitor, be grateful that you’re not the Prince and Princess of Wales, who have the additional stress of learning that they’ve upset the good people of Windsor.
Locals are apparently up in arms after being told that they’ll need to rethink their routes in order to allow a giant privacy fence to go up around the royal couple’s new home. Their move to Forest Lodge necessitates the building of an exclusion zone, which will take out a car park and a gate access to Windsor Great Park which locals have previously paid a £110 per year subscription to use. Those with parking permits have been told to “get in touch” with the local council, and anyone found still walking their dog on the old favourite route could be arrested.
“Many of us have been walking our dogs here for 20 years so to be told we can’t any more is a kick in the teeth,” one told The Sun. “They’ve only given us a few days’ notice to say this section of forest is closing for ever. Now I’ll need to get in my car to drive further afield to take my dog for a walk.”
If you were a Windsor local who’d previously been on the fence about the monarchy, I could see this pushing you very firmly on to the “no thanks” side of that (taxpayer-funded) fence. In part because of the lack of notice, in part because of the lack of consultation, and in part because of the age-old issue of famous people clumsily handling their need for “privacy”.
I think many of us would like the option to shut out the rest of the world save for when it’s convenient to have visitors. And if you’re one of the most famous couples on the face of the earth, it’s even more logical – William and Kate have had previous ructions over strangers filming them with their children, and Kate had the traumatic experience of being photographed topless on her honeymoon in France. Not to mention the horrific death of Diana, Princess of Wales, partly because of paparazzi intrusion.
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Asking for, or even intimating a desire for, more privacy is perhaps the least sensible thing that a famous person could do. It feels like a rejection, an announcement that they want to be loved and partake in public life, but only when it suits, and that otherwise we the public are an unwelcome intrusion. This must be particularly galling when you’re not even very interested in the royals, merely a local person wanting to carry on with your own life and enjoy a local park.
For lots of people I would imagine it’s just about having their favourite walk taken away. The walks that we do regularly become familiar friends. There’s a route through Highbury Fields which was my companion with a newborn, one through Richmond Park which feels like Christmas as a small child, one between my parents’ house and my old school which always reminds me of crafty cigarettes and teenage gossip.
With dogs or otherwise, walking is how many of us help our brains work; it’s how we calm down, cheer up, manage our minds or work through difficult problems. To have an old faithful taken away – even if it’s for a good reason – feels like losing a friend.
The late Queen was famous for taking a relaxed attitude towards her own security while in Scotland, and there are dozens and dozens of stories of locals crossing paths with her, saying a quick hello and moving on with their day. Somehow being so very ordinary about the whole thing made her seem even more extraordinary.
Obviously William and Kate live in a different world, a world where everyone’s got a camera in their pocket, every moment can be broadcast and things feel angrier, scarier and more dangerous.
So it’s all very reasonable. Unfortunately it’s just very, very hard for any famous person to convey that message without seeming like a bit of a brat. See Harry and Meghan for more details.
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