How Many Celebrities Or Royals Show As Much Heart Felt Emotion?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/10042249/Countess-of-Wessexs-tears-for-Bevin-Boys.html

We witness many shows of false emotions and crocodile tears from celebrities and some time royals, but these recently shown by a Royal who does not often receive much media attention, are truly from the heart.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02556/Sophie-Wessex-tear_2556450c.jpg

Apart from the scenes where she wipes away a few tears, this is the photograph that did it for me, truly genuine feelings.

[jim360]

I should think you are just better at this than I am -- but how can you tell which are genuine and which are not?

[Bazile]

So , she shows some emotion that may or may not be heart felt - that many people would show .

What's the big deal ?

[Gromit]

Very much reminds me of this picture of the Duchess of Kent.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00309/3589059__309104c.jpg

[jackthehat]

My maternal grandfather was in the Merchant Navy on served on the Atlantic Convoys.
My paternal grandfather was a Bevin Boy and worked in the mines.

Both served to keep the country going during the war. And it is nice to think that they, now, both enjoy (although long since dead) equal recognition for the services they provided.

[FredPuli43]

When have we seen "crocodile tears" from members of the Royal Family? Don't remember any. Trying to look happy when they are bored, well, that is another matter.

[jno]

high time the Bevin Boys got their due, really. But I don't know that this is the basis for having a go at the royals

[andy-hughes]

Interesting.

Do we assume that our royal family do not possess the same emotions as the rest of us - or is it simply that protocol demands a level of decorum and inhibition that makes them look cold and aloof?

I have no doubt that celebrities and royals alike are exactly the same mix of feeling and unfeeling individuals as the rest of the population - it really is not significant that one member of the royal family shows some emotion - and it is wrong to assume that lack of such gestures equate with a comensurate absence of feeling.

[sp1814]

"How Many Celebrities Or Royals Show As Much Heart Felt Emotion?"

I would say, "Lots and lots and lots".

But then, like you - I can't be sure, because I have no way of knowing whether someone whom I don't know is being genuine.

[joko]

i was just thinking the same andy - they are still people regardless of their job or fame or what family they were born into.

i agree that there are plenty who do these events and couldn't care less - but that would be the case with any person - some care some don't - being a celebrity is irrelevant.

you would have to have a heart of stone to not care at all.