When you're famous, people scrutinize your every move. When you're a royal, people literally examine every hair on your damn head. So maybe that's why British tabloids, and others, are speculating that the reason Prince William finally broke down and proposed to Kate Middleton after 8 years of dating is because dude has the hairline of a young Uncle Fester. Or, maybe they're saying it because Will has already shown himself to be hyper-sensitive about the world seeing his 28 year-old scalp and until recently he seemed like he'd gladly drop Kate like a bad habit if royals were still allowed to rock those uber-fruity powdered wigs like in the gay old days. You be the judge...

I know the theory that Will is about to make his 8-on-a-good-day girlfriend into a friggin' princess just because he's showing a little skin up top might sound ridiculous at first, but it's already been suggested by such trashy tabloid rags as The New York Times, which wrote yesterday, "Of all the details surrounding Prince William's April marriage to his longtime girlfriend, Kate Middleton, few seem to have garnered as much attention as his rapidly receding hairline." Couple that with the famous 2009 interview in which Prince Willy snapped at his younger brother (and awesomely called him a "ginger") for bringing up big bro's baldness, and it's clear that Will is less than cool with the idea of showing his royal crown at such a young age.
Now, you might be thinking, "We all have aspects of our physical appearance that we're none too happy with. That doesn't mean we marry the nearest piece of @ss to feel better about it." To which I say, "You're thinking like a bloody commoner, mate!" The Royal Family basically exists for no other reason than to look good and make people jealous. A royal wedding is a media event that makes the Super Bowl look like the Lower Oakland Roller Derby Finals. If you had an event like that hanging over your head since the day you were born, don't you think you might try to get on with it before you risked blinding the world with the glare from your kingly chrome dome? Even if the chick you were getting hitched to was a no-breasted two-face who you might need a hearty dose of the royal mead in order to get down with, it would sure beat the alternative of having your world famous wedding photos look like a Rogaine ad.
Prince William and Kate might look like a perfect couple in photo spreads, but so did Will's folks, and we all know how that turned out. I'm not saying baldness necessarily leads to divorce, premature death, international strife, and apocalyptic nuclear conflict between the British and the hair-loving people of North Korea...but it can't help.



