People started turning up outside Westminster Abbey yesterday so that they would get a good position for the big day. I can’t help thinking about the nitty gritty things like – what do they do about going to the loo?!
This morning on the Chris Evans radio show he spoke to a woman called Donna who had come all the way from Connecticut to bag a good viewing position. Absolutely crazy, and it’s something which she seems to make a habit of, she even came over for the Andrew-Sarah wedding. Let’s face it, the minute that Sarah Ferguson said in an interview that she didn’t know how she was going to cope with Andrew being away at sea they should have called it off!
I haven’t watched any of the William – Catherine interviews but I think they have a much better chance than any of the others of being able to stay happily married. For one thing Catherine’s parents are still together, which is more than could be said for Diana and Sarah’s parents. The other plus is that this time the bride seems to have a brain!
She’s also older and appears to be more mature. They both are.
I don’t know that I’ll ever understand American’s near obsession with the British monarchy. Especially when one considers the lengths to which we went in escaping its rule. LOL.
That said – I’m taping the proceedings. More interested in the dress than anything. Anything’s bound to be an improvement over that overfrosted cupcake that Diana steered down the aisle (and I’m not referring to Prince Charles…sort of.)
The real tragedy of the Diana dress is the hundreds of American brides, who had no dream of carrying off that look, dutifully buying and wearing the knockoffs. And the only thing worse than dreadful couture is cheap copies of dreadful couture.
(Apologies to anyone reading this who may have succumbed to that particular fantasy. Face it, in the 80s we were ALL fashion victims at one point or another!!)
Pearl,
I’m glad that you are also perplexed by the American interest in it all. Diana’s dress was a fright, but I’m sure I was sitting watching it with big shoulder pads stuck to me!