In peddling royal scandals, says Roger Scruton, newspapers are appealing to the depraved imagination of the public. We are guilty of collective treason.
Should we blame the butler? The tittle-tattlers of the royal household? The newspaper editors, the BBC, the general public? The cultural climate, British hypocrisy, the decadence of modern society, the Internet, the Decline of the West? Or should we blame the Prince, for something we know not what? These questions, which have filled the air during a week of futile hysteria are exactly the questions that should not be asked. There is a simple response to factitious scandals like the one that we have been living through, which is that it is none of your business.
If the rumour is false, then you should not be interested. If it is true, then you should be interested even less. The wrongdoing, for proof of which you search the newspaper and the Google-box, is yours.
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