By now I guess everyone knows that Jacintha Saldanha, the Indian nurse at the hospital Kate was admitted with severe morning sickness, killed herself because she couldn't live with the disgrace she thought she brought to the hospital by patching the call through to the two Australian pranksters who just wanted to have some fun. Not to defend them or anything but I don't think that they thought their actions would lead to a suicide in a billion years. The fact that nothing particularly intimate was divulged other than "She's resting comfortably and had a good night" seems irrelevant in this case due to the tragic reaction of the nurse who obviously had a very tenuous hold on life. The roots of her self destruction had to have been in her character or she would have never done such a thing over such an insignificant, harmless thing. She was probably a perfectionist who took a lot of pride in her performance and her own worst enemy, so she built the whole thing in her mind as a catastrophe, a national disgrace, and was forced to do something about it thinking only of her shame and mortification and not of the husband and children she was leaving behind. This is extremely sad to say the least and Kate must be seeing the harrowing costs of her extraordinary fame very closely indeed. This is after all, the same fame that destroyed Princess Diana, haunting her from the very beginning of her marriage and ultimately killing her. We all would like to be a face in the crowd but this kind of fame is destructive, it's overwhelming, and as we see with this tragedy, it can be deadly. And although Kate has the love and support of her husband (something the lovely Diana didn't) she should thread very, very carefully.
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