"𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍..."
Beatrice "Birdie" Isley Kane is many things: a trust fund baby, a child star turned teen icon, and, in an unexpected twist, a British Royal.
But just months into her marriage to Prince Edwa...
⚠️ warning... not necessarily anything criminal going on but there is a sexually mature scene that's uneasy so tread carefully when you get to Birdie's POV 😪
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When will we get...
...the time to be...
...just friends?
It's never safe for us...
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August 20, 1988 London, England
—CHRONICLER—
Something had shifted upon Beatrice's return from across the pond.
See, the once ridiculed, coquette princess, generally viewed as too childish and untraditional had, in two weeks, proven that she could be taken seriously after all.
It started with a photo and a headline. A smiling, closed eye, modestly and immaculately styled Beatrice hugging a teenaged AIDS patient, not too far from her in age.
'Birdie Has The Touch... A Royal Milestone', the headline across The Sun read.
She was the first Royal to bring attention to a sick AIDS patient and seemingly the first person of high status to touch one, on camera at least, but what had been a Sun special quickly spread into a cover story for all major international newspapers.
'HRH Princess Birdie: The Face of A New Era?' ran one cover, with a candid shot of her looking intensely in a room of some sort. She looked fierce, head thrown back in determination, smiling that perfect smile.
'The Good Princess... When It's Right to Break Protocol' ran the text across the screen for the BBC's news coverage. A video of what looked like her on her hands and knees chatting next to a wheelchair bound child, smiling shyly up into a camera.
One cover seemed to be specifically created just to give a more accurate take on 'the shift': 'Birdie's Touch: Why She Makes The Royals Great Again', with a black and white, perfectly lighted and timed shot of Birdie embracing the AIDS patient.
The article, from The Telegraph, underlined how the young woman's metaphoric raising of her sleeves to venture into unglamorous causes the Palace tended to shy away from was in fact the tipping point in her popularity amongst people all across the globe; her show of humanity, of real caring, had touched a cold, hardened part of the world's soul. And for this, her ratings were through the roof... and so were her husband's.
