To be fair other people get this kind of attention too.
Soon we'll be speculating about Margaret Thatcher's mental state again. It's taken over from the papers' fascination with the affliction turning her hand into a withered claw.
People who were alive back then told me that the Daily Mirror used to run regular stories for a year up till his death demanding that a frail Winston Churchill be wheeled out for the gaiety of the nation.
Then we all came together with a lovely State funeral.