It would be interesting to know what proportion of the
British public would agree with The Times, which on Tuesday launched a forthright attack on those sections of the British Press which have treated Princess Margaret's holiday as a peep-show. The editors who have been printing tasteless rubbish about her slightest action would presumably justify themselves by asserting that the public wants this sort of stuff so badly that it is their duty to supply it. But does the public want it ? I should have thought that it left the whole of the male population cold, and that even in the female population the satisfaction of their vulgar curiosity about what the Princess was doing or wearing must be largely offset by a " Why- can't-they-leave-the-poor-girl-alone ?" feeling. I may be dead wrong about this ; but I don't think I'm wrong in saying that, though the days of the "Gutter Press " are past, there has been a bad attack of nostalgie de la boue on Capri.
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