Meghan Markle, Prince Harry expecting first child
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Our fascination with royal babies and other celebrities reveals an important fact about ourselves. This podcast shows us how to find joyful significance in a culture focused on fame. For more news discerned differently, or to receive the Daily Article via email, please visit denisonforum.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the daily article from Monday, October 15th, 2018. |
| 0:07.9 | Megan, the Duchess of Sussex, is expecting her first child with Prince Harry, according to an announcement by Kensington Palace this morning. |
| 0:15.0 | The palace said the baby is expected in the spring of 2019. The news was announced as the couple began a tour of Australia, their first |
| 0:22.5 | official tour since their marriage. The baby will be seventh in line to the throne. |
| 0:27.9 | UNICEF estimates that 353,000 babies are born each day around the world. What makes a royal baby so |
| 0:34.3 | special? Prince George was born on July 22nd, 2013. The next evening, he was presented |
| 0:40.3 | to, quote, the biggest media circus in royal history, end quote. Hundreds of TV crews and reporters |
| 0:45.9 | lined up for almost a month outside the hospital where his mother gave birth. When Princess |
| 0:51.2 | Charlotte was carried out of the hospital, the receiving blanket in which she was |
| 0:55.0 | wrapped sold out within minutes. Its brand monitored 100,000 people from 183 countries |
| 1:01.5 | visiting their website in less than 24 hours. When Prince George greeted President Obama at |
| 1:07.4 | Kensington Palace in 2016, the clothes he was wearing sold out in minutes as well. |
| 1:12.9 | It's been this way for many years. |
| 1:14.8 | When Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, appeared on the cover of Time magazine |
| 1:19.6 | in the early 1930s, her clothing was copied in stores across America. |
| 1:24.1 | In the 1890s, when the Duke of Windsor wore a straw hat, his appearance revived |
| 1:29.6 | the Nottingham Straw Industry. There's no question that our age is fascinated by celebrities. |
| 1:35.8 | Dozens of magazines and innumerable websites are devoted to them. Their exploits and experiences |
| 1:40.8 | often lead the evening news ahead of events a far greater consequence to our lives. |
| 1:46.0 | Psychologists have various explanations for this fascination. One is terror management theory, |
| 1:51.9 | which states that our anxiety over death drives us to seek a sense of self-esteem, worth, |
| 1:57.1 | and sustainability. Thus, we focus on people whose lives seem successful, vicariously |
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