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Is it immoral to kill real life Royals in a novel???


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Initial post: 16 Nov 2009 16:36 GMT
 Simon Richards says:
Shakespeare's Truth

I just read this book which is an amazingly good thriller, a bit like a better version of the da vinci code except about shakespeare and the royal family in London, and England, but it starts off with a real life royal (Prince William) being murdered!!! Should that sort of thing be allowed in books? I was wondering what people thought. It was a really great book though, best I have read this year, apart from Child 44 which I loved too.
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Posted on 16 Nov 2009 17:08 GMT
 BookJumper says:
I shouldn't see why, provided it's not the type of book that encourages people to go out there and murder Prince William.
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Posted on 16 Nov 2009 17:20 GMT
 Angular says:
Morality of royality in real life - discuss..
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Posted on 16 Nov 2009 17:29 GMT
 Mr. R. Heimann says:
I don't see a problem with any member of the Royal Family being murdered in fiction. The point of fiction is you can have whatever you want to happen, happen. it is just another form of entertainment and fantasy. In fact the the idea is vaguely amusing.
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Posted on 16 Nov 2009 18:50 GMT
 Mr. MJ RIDDLE says:
Why would a member of the Royal Family deserve different treatment to any other actual human being?
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In reply to an earlier post on 16 Nov 2009 23:15 GMT
 LEP says:
Why not, as Bookjumper says, as long as it isn't a possible copycat.

It's not as though the author is jinxing him or anything - hopefully! And they aren't gods, so it's not blasphomy.

Seen plenty of films and books where the American president is killed, same difference surely.
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Posted on 17 Nov 2009 18:10 GMT
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 P. Cobb says:
Treason! Orf with the author's head!

My main thought is that using an actual royal places the story in a rigid time sphere. Not having read the book it might be that that is what is required, but by having used a non-named Prince it might have made the story more timeless.

To quote an example from JK Rowling, Harry Potter VI starts off in 'The Prime Minister's Office'. I believe the time scale places this as John Major, but he is only referred to as 'Prime Minister' which means the story is timeless.
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Posted on 17 Nov 2009 18:54 GMT
 Mr. R. J. Hole says:
Good question. If it was a member of your own family what would you think? I would find it offensive.
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Posted on 17 Nov 2009 20:30 GMT
 Jen Errik says:
Interesting. I'd somehow always assumed the Prime Minister in HP6 was an AU Tony Blair: I never thought to check the timeline. He doesn't sound very Major-ish, though.

I don't think stories need to be timeless - they tend to date naturally anyway. The Sayers story where Wimsey risks life and limb flying across the Atlantic with evidence belongs to a really specific time - but it's still readable. And oodles of writers from Alan Bennett to Helen Fielding have mentioned named royals in their books.

I'm trying to think if I've read anything where a living royal was killed. Nearest I can think of is the film 'King Ralph' but I'm not sure if it kills the actual royal family.
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In reply to an earlier post on 17 Nov 2009 21:38 GMT
 LEP says:
Well yes, on reflection I do have to agree with two points made above. The first being that naming an actual royal ties to novel to a historical time-period. Secondly, if it were one of my family members named, yes I would be upset.
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Posted on 17 Nov 2009 21:56 GMT
 Trimalchio says:
No. It is not immoral to kill anyone in fiction. Nobody actually dies. Whether it's in good taste is another matter....
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Posted on 17 Nov 2009 22:07 GMT
 Mr. A. Humphrey says:
Its fine , after why should they be treated any differently from others, in real life if they are not useless, they are spongers , Helicopter Andy and prance edward spring to mind.
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Posted on 18 Nov 2009 19:22 GMT
 M. Jolliff says:
Possibly, but only as morality is a social construct. Being a work of fiction that would make the moral imperative slightly more extreme than Torquemada's, but you never know with humanity.
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