http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/08/uk-royal-brides-virginity-longer-issue/?intcmp=obnetwork
Royal attitudes change with the times
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Few people — royal or otherwise — seem bothered by the fact that Prince William and his fiancee, Kate Middleton, have been living together off and on during the course of their eight-year romance, which began in university days.
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William's decision to live with his fiancee has been met, in general, with a shrug. The British public seems comfortable with the royal family having updated its unwritten behavior codes to bring them more in line with widely held social values.
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"After two decades of scandal, I think it's the royal family recognizing that to be normal is to their advantage," she said. "It's a canny refashioning of the image. There is no longer an investment in being anachronistic, or a public expectation that they ought to be harkening back to a different era of sexual politics.""the royal family recognizing that to be normal is to their advantage"
As long as they're walking around thinking they're
royal they'll never be normal.
"royal family having updated its unwritten behavior codes to bring them more in line with widely held social values"
I know it's just me but I always think saying sleeping around is a social value sounds odd. Value to me = valuable.
What I learned from this story? That, yes,even that bastion of sexual mores (
) the royal family (
) has come around to recognzing that all those sexual rules are outdated.
