

Kate Middleton and Prince William’s royal convoy struck and “seriously injured” a woman Monday while they traveled from London to Windsor. As the official story goes, a British police officer’s motorcycle collided with “a woman pedestrian.” The Independent Office For Police Conduct, in a statement to The Telegraph, said:
“The woman, in her 80s, suffered serious injuries and was taken to a London hospital where she remains in a serious but stable condition. We are investigating the circumstances surrounding a collision involving a marked police motorcycle attached to the Royalty and Specialist Protection Command and a woman pedestrian on Upper Richmond Road, Richmond, south west London at 12:50 p.m. on Monday 17 June.”
The Sun later reported that a witness at the scene claimed the cop’s motorcycle “hit her and she spun round, off her feet and fell badly on the floor.” They also followed up with statements from her family. Her daughter, speaking from the hospital, announced they were “keeping her stable” as she has “lots of injuries.” By this point, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had released a statement:
“The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were deeply concerned and saddened to hear about the accident on Monday afternoon,” a spokesperson for Kensington Palace said, BBC and The Telegraph reported. “Their Royal Highnesses have sent their very best wishes to Irene and her family and will stay in touch throughout every stage of her recovery.”
It seems they were en route to the “Order of the Garter,” which I’m informed is one of Windsor’s “oldest royal traditions” and an “annual celebration […] of the most senior order of knighthood in the U.K.” And while I’ll attempt to respect that a woman has been seriously injured in this next line of questioning: how does the denizens of Windsor reckon with the fact that a “common woman” was injured by the nobility’s passing caravan en route to a gathering of the most prestigious members of the British ruling class? In most other times in history, that’d be a cry for revolution!