Kate Middleton and the very bad joke against Harry | Gramellini’s Coffee

At the first public appearance after the chatty brother-in-law’s bestseller, Kate the Perfect ha planted a joke that contains multiple layers of perfidy.

Here it is: “Mental therapies don’t work for some people.”

Now, I understand that they won’t be fed up with this at home Harry, whose victim rumbling, fomented by his very cunning wife, he’s starting to stand on the boxes even for us who only come across him on the covers of magazines. If his relatives intend to send him to hell, they have my sympathy.

But there are ways and ways, and Kate has chosen the coldest and cruelest. Meanwhile, she doesn’t lower herself to name Harry directly, and nothing is more contemptuous than a princely pizzino wrapped in a sharp smile. And then the Perfect one doesn’t attack the rebel with a hard face and on the merits, calling him a slanderer or a liar (and she would have had every reason to, after her brother-in-law described her as a troublemaker of journalistic gossip against her).

Instead, he chooses the stab in the back of the intimate reference: the psychological treatments to which Harry underwent as a boy to soothe the invisible wounds inflicted on him by the early death of his mother.

Perhaps the greater humanity of a personal attack, even heavy, but direct and respectful of the frailties of others, should be re-evaluated compared to the allusion that insists on a physical defect or a psychological wound. A really low blow, especially if it is struck by a person who calls himself his Highness.

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