The frenzy reminds me of a haunting photo of Princess Diana.

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Stop the presses. Place your tools. Sound each church bell in the country so that all the subjects can hear the cheerful news: Kate Middleton is blonde.

Or it could be. It is difficult to say in a photo that someone managed to get it in one car the other day. But that never stopped the copy of the media in the world breathless on the royal family before. Some of the reactions I have read in magazines and online newspapers during last week on the subject of Kate Middleton’s hair includes: “Why the blonde princess of Wales is a disturbing of beauty”; “His freshly lit shade could not be more royal”; “The Blonde Blonde Cure of the Princess of Wales is the ultimate anti-autumn declaration.” Conversely: “It is the perfect autumn transformation.” The country and the town house ran with the title “The truth behind the new blonde explosion of Kate Middleton”, whose truth is: it could be a different color now, we are not sure, because there is only one photo.

Theories on hair abound. A doctor in honest psychology to God weighed on Fox News that these new hair can be the way Kate of “recovering the agency and visibility” the day after the disease that prevented her from public tasks last year and had people from all over the world speculating with delirium whether she had died or obtains a divorce. Others think that the new hair color could be to facilitate hiding place of new gray cultures of the examination of press photographers as Kate ages. She apparently spent the summer on a yacht navigating in the Greek islands (but not once, over several weeks, fixing the feet on one of them, for security reasons), so others think that the new lighter color can be the effect of time in the sun. Then there is the burning question of what color, exactly, it’s now. Is it blond? Honey blond? Honey Brond? Mocha Brond? Toffee Blond? Golden taupe? “Ancient” blond, anything for that? How do we know that it is not a wig? Is it temporary? Is it permanent? Is it just a tip for light? Does a change in hairstyle point out, as people with free time have claimed, that it could be about to announce a pregnancy?

I appreciate that I myself sit here with my computer by writing on “Blond Kate Middleton”, but I have always wondered who these media frenzies are. Then, I remember that there are really hordes of people around the world who want to know what is the precise color that Kate Middleton’s hair. I may not know any of them, you may not know any of them, but they are there. She has, for example, a community of stans known as the fallback or copykates who spend their time and their money to recreate her outfits. When this woman wears a dress, this dress will sell in a few minutes. But there are many more people at a less diagnosed level of interest for the princess.

On the one hand, it is the dream of each woman who has gone through a rough patch and decides to dye her blond hair on this subject that the world press shouts this new roofs. Go blonde is to say: I need people to make a kind of lines immediately. It is, from personal experience, an important opportunity. And on the other, it is quite denied that this great attention is paid to the color of a woman’s hair.

But Middleton, of course, is not just any woman. She is a woman who leads one of the strangest and most regional lives in the world. Kate Middleton is a brunette. It is a fundamental part of her character that she is a woman with brown hair. As my colleague said, it could actually be all his character. There is a reason for this: her appearance is almost everything that is authorized for her, all that she is authorized to show. Middleton has settled so much in the role of figure in the royal family that any feeling of his real personality has been buried under cashmere sweaters and respectable MIDI dresses. Her job is to be Kate Middleton and look like Kate Middleton. Going blond is about as exciting as Kate Middleton’s life is authorized to be. You would see Kate Middleton earlier to set up a mechanical bull in guys without ass than with a cutting of elf. You don’t see her as much as a skirt that shows her thighs.

I suppose that I also think about it because it is the period of the year when this photograph of Diana seated alone on a dive turns in social media, a photograph taken a week before his death at the end of August 1997. The images of a princess are so useful because to be a princess is to be reduced to an image. It is Kate Middleton’s work to be looked at, and apparently my work as the subject of the British crown to watch Kate Middleton, a woman with beautiful hair that may be blonde. And as always, the whole look is weird, useless and empty.

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