Questão de Língua Inglesa

01. Britain has met the heir who will certainly 02. change the face of monarchy for ever. Kate 03. and William’s son enters this world as a Royal 04. Highness, destined to be king of his country. 05. Though his mother is a Duchess, the title 06. ........ disguise the fact that there has never 07. been a royal child quite like Kate’s. For while 08. William descends from a line of monarchs, 09. this baby boy’s maternal grandparents once 10. worked for British Airways and now run their 11. own company. 12. This new prince will become the first 13. British monarch with working-class blood 14. running through his veins. Monarchy these 15. days is a precarious business, and increasingly 16. hard to justify – not only in terms of the funds 17. taxpayers donate to the Crown, but in a wider 18. world in which royal families seem ever more 19. anachronistic. This baby has arrived at a time 20. of profound social change and evolution – 21. ........ is why I believe a royal child with 22. middle-class antecedents can provide the 23. social alchemy that will secure the future of 24. the House of Windsor. 25. William and Kate, a modern couple, lived 26. together quite openly for several years before 27. their marriage, a sensible decision condoned 28. by the Queen, which ........ been seen as 29. unthinkable less than a decade earlier. This 30. was after prince Charles had moved in with 31. his divorced former mistress, Camila Parker 32. Bowles, a situation that would have been 33. equally unacceptable a few years ago. 34. All this evidences a rapidly evolving 35. monarchy. Who would have suspected that 36. the Queen would have been seen pretending 37. to parachute into the Olympic stadium with 38. James Bond? And who ........ predict how far 39. this process of evolution will have travelled by 40. the time the new prince reaches the throne? 41. From the pit to the Palace in three 42. generations? Surely it is the perfect fairytale 43. for a nation that grows more middle-class by 44. the year. Adaptado de: THORTON, Michael. A very middle class baby who will secure the future of the royal family. Daily Mail. 22 jul 2013. Disponível em: < http://www. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2374279/Kate-Middletongives-birth-middle-class-Royal-baby-boy-securemonarchys-future.html>. Acesso em: 06 set. 2013. 22

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