The Dauphin

I ask you, in what sort of Republic does an article such as this appear. In what sort of "democracy" does the quarreling between the courts of the former and current ruler appear in speculative journalism? I'm well past the point of being shocked, needless to say, but are our pressmen now so compromised and dehistoricized that the specter of "loyalist" advisers to a father-son ruling pair of Georges elicits not the slightest mirth?