The fashionable thing to say about the interest in Kate Middleton's pregnancy is that it is some kind of unhealthy obsession. Well, okay, too much of it would be an obsession. But the thinking seems to be that any interest in Kate Middleton's pregnancy or Kate Middleton or the royals at all is somehow misdirected.
The reason, apparently, is that the royals don't deserve the attention. Okay.
