In that classic puzzler of what comes first
we may ponder the shaping of a personality
born into an aristocratic position with a
massive heritage in a culture and a society
wedded to its royalty and wonder whether
it is the royal dynasty that moulds its princelings
or that the emotional state of narcissism
is inbred, inherited along with the line of
succession of kings and queens. History is
replete with sibling contenders to the Crown
engaging in charges of attempted regicide
some succeeding others gone to the gallows.
Think: it must be difficult work maintaining
oneself as a princely narcissist compelled to
prove time after time how exceptional one is
inviting admiration and viral envy. All the more
so when the succession bypasses the 'spare'
then impelled to reject his royal designation in
a bid for independence as a sensational celebrity
whose defiant choice of a commoner wife steeped
deep in her own rancid resentment of life steers
the dejected royal on a path of familial rejection
and fashionable remunerative stardom and the
die is cast, a mess of pottage grasped and bled.
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