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On the homepage of The Daily Beast right now, a headline beckons: “If Kate Middleton’s Butt Could Speak.” How could I not click on that?

Actually, the full title of the piece, which was published early this morning, is “If Kate Middleton’s Butt Could Speak: It’s Time Royal Princesses Led Visible, Voluble Public Lives,” but for those additional words, you need to click through to the full thing. I’ll note that the piece, by Tim Teeman, has little to do with Kate Middleton’s butt, though it does reference the recent controversy over the publication of a Marilyn Monroe-esque upskirt shot of Middleton while in Australia, made possible by a gust of wind stirred up by a helicopter.

Rather, Teeman offers a thoughtful essay about the media-manufactured rivalry between Kate and the soon-to-be-Queen Letizia of Spain, as well as a powerful meditation about their roles as largely mute accessories to gilded royal conglomerates. “There’s nothing the media likes more than women fighting one another,” he writes, “particularly if the media can dictate the terms of that fight because those involved are royal and rarely stirred to comment. Without words, royalty, even royal bums, become symbols. Without commanding, distinguishing words from their mouths, the narrative can be wholly invented for Kate and Letizia.”

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