If anyone had interviewed me after my accident, they wouldn't have been able to print the words I used about the other driver. I was injured, shocked, angry, upset & terrified about the "what ifs". Basically I was a mess for a while, which is why I feel those women are vulnerable.
Exactly.
Before pointing fingers at the women and attribute to them all kinds of negative motives, perhaps we should step back for a moment and consider this:
Are they, as Lilyflo points out, currently in a state of shock?
Have their words been blown out of proportion by the media?
Are they merely telling things as they themselves see it right now?
Have they expressed anything in regards to claiming a big compensation? That they are now more or less invalids? And so on and so on...
Do they actually have a point?
When looking at from outside the women do have a valid point IMO.
The Duke is an elderly man, who was driving on a public road at an age where most people have long since turned in their driving license or had it revoked by their doctors, or worse by the police.
After the accident there has AFAIK been no communication between the Duke, the BRF or the court and the other persons involved.
Okay, you can claim that might be for insurance reasons and advised by lawyers - and that would perhaps be acceptable, had the Duke been an ordinary person. - He isn't.
Would it have been damaging if the Duke had asked by letter or phone: How are you? And wished a full and speedy recovery.
Flowers perhaps? Chocolate?
It's not a big song and dance act that is required, but merely a gesture.
And
that I think is the key in this matter!
And then while recovering from their injures and pretty shaken up and pestered by phone calls from the press, they can a couple of days later read in the papers that the Duke has got himself a brand new car (theirs is still a wreck mind you and they probably haven't even got a replacement car from their insurance company yet) and is driving around - without a seat-belt!
How do you think they would feel about that?
If I had been involved in an accident with a royal, in which my small child had been involved and in which I had been injured, I sure would have been hopping mad, if the only response I got from the from the royal family was silence.
It's a basic human reaction.