As I write this column it is now two more days to the Royal Wedding April 29 of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Not that I am really counting.
I, for one, since I am a guy, am not “gaga” over all the furor we’ve been hearing since the announcement of the royal couple’s engagement Nov. 16, 2010.
Well, I know at least one other person who isn’t on board with the coverage, CBS newsman Bob Schieffer.
“I’m happy for the boy and the girl – they seem nice – but on my list of things that matter, the love life of British Royals falls somewhere between other people’s golf scores and the recipe for airline food,” Schieffer said in an on-air commentary on Nov. 21, 2010.
Like Schieffer, I am happy for the couple but I have to wonder if maybe even both Prince William and Kate Middleton wish this wasn’t such a huge media event where on April 29, 2 billion people around the world will watch the two say "I do."
I suppose if I were really that sick of all the media coverage and walking by the displays of current magazines at bookstores about the royal family, I might find it comforting to know that there actually are some Royal Wedding Barf Bags I could buy that I read about on the site thesop.org a few weeks ago.
I know those would come in handy if I chomp down on a bag of “Kate Middleton” jelly beans where the image of her face can be seen the way people see Jesus and the Virgin Mary on a tree or while making pancakes.
I know I’d probably need to take more than just one pill of Nexium after eating that Papa John’s Royal Wedding pizza which shows the happy couple in a mosaic with salami and peppers used to create the image of Prince William and mushrooms for Kate’s veil and cheese for her dress.
“America has gone royal nuts,” British journalist Martin Bashir told Matt Lauer on the "Today" show the day after the 83rd Academy Awards Feb. 28. “Everybody is excited. I was in Britain and there is not as much enthusiasm.”
“In Britain, we (the British) have been close to the royal family and have seen marriage failure, Prince Andrew, Prince Charles, the Princess Royal – Princess Ann,” Bashir said. “Therefore it’s hard to imagine that another fairy tale will work. But in this case, I think we have reason to be optimistic. I think the Americans have it right. This is a relationship that has been developing, is being shaped properly and she (Kate Middleton) is being very, very well prepared for these public responsibilities.”
In a world where every day we hear nothing but bad news from natural disasters and the growing unrest in the Middle East to recent local crime stories of a mother/fitness instructor being brutally murdered and a father being fatally shot in front of his three-year-old daughter, at least the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton can be that one positive bright spot for millions to cherish.
Who knows? Maybe with the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the world will finally get that fairy tale ending people never saw after Prince Charles and Diana tied the knot July 29, 1981.
I, for one, am at least pulling for them.
If nothing else that will make all this excessive unnecessary media coverage I have been exposed to in both print and broadcast journalism since last November all the more worth it.
©4/27/11
I, for one, since I am a guy, am not “gaga” over all the furor we’ve been hearing since the announcement of the royal couple’s engagement Nov. 16, 2010.
For the life of me, I have never really understood all the excitement women have about getting married but that’s probably just me.I have to wonder if I am the only male in America who isn’t excited over the media frenzy.
I would be just as happy if the woman I propose to one day tells me she has no problem getting hitched in Las Vegas where I have an Elvis impersonator standing in as my best man.
Well, I know at least one other person who isn’t on board with the coverage, CBS newsman Bob Schieffer.
“I’m happy for the boy and the girl – they seem nice – but on my list of things that matter, the love life of British Royals falls somewhere between other people’s golf scores and the recipe for airline food,” Schieffer said in an on-air commentary on Nov. 21, 2010.
Like Schieffer, I am happy for the couple but I have to wonder if maybe even both Prince William and Kate Middleton wish this wasn’t such a huge media event where on April 29, 2 billion people around the world will watch the two say "I do."
I suppose if I were really that sick of all the media coverage and walking by the displays of current magazines at bookstores about the royal family, I might find it comforting to know that there actually are some Royal Wedding Barf Bags I could buy that I read about on the site thesop.org a few weeks ago.
I know those would come in handy if I chomp down on a bag of “Kate Middleton” jelly beans where the image of her face can be seen the way people see Jesus and the Virgin Mary on a tree or while making pancakes.
I know I’d probably need to take more than just one pill of Nexium after eating that Papa John’s Royal Wedding pizza which shows the happy couple in a mosaic with salami and peppers used to create the image of Prince William and mushrooms for Kate’s veil and cheese for her dress.
I do not do internet dating, but I have to say if I did and the woman I was supposed to meet at some restaurant arrives dressed in the same blue engagement dress and heels Kate Middleton appeared in before the news media when their engagement was announced and has her finger nails painted with “Kate Middleton” nail polish, I don’t know what I am going to do if she sees me and I have no way of slipping out of there.What may be ironic is it seems Americans (or is it the liberal drive-by entertainment news media?) are more enthusiastic about the Royal Wedding than the British.
“America has gone royal nuts,” British journalist Martin Bashir told Matt Lauer on the "Today" show the day after the 83rd Academy Awards Feb. 28. “Everybody is excited. I was in Britain and there is not as much enthusiasm.”
“In Britain, we (the British) have been close to the royal family and have seen marriage failure, Prince Andrew, Prince Charles, the Princess Royal – Princess Ann,” Bashir said. “Therefore it’s hard to imagine that another fairy tale will work. But in this case, I think we have reason to be optimistic. I think the Americans have it right. This is a relationship that has been developing, is being shaped properly and she (Kate Middleton) is being very, very well prepared for these public responsibilities.”
While I do feel the media could find more important things to cover, I can understand why a lot of Americans may be excited for the happy couple. Especially for Kate, who unlike Prince William's mother, Diana, the Princess of Wales, looks as though she will have no trouble adjusting to being in the media spotlight. When Diana died tragically in a car crash August 31, 1997, I have always felt there was never going to be someone in the royal family who could replace her.I have been around long enough, however, to see a lot of things make a second comeback.
In a world where every day we hear nothing but bad news from natural disasters and the growing unrest in the Middle East to recent local crime stories of a mother/fitness instructor being brutally murdered and a father being fatally shot in front of his three-year-old daughter, at least the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton can be that one positive bright spot for millions to cherish.
Who knows? Maybe with the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the world will finally get that fairy tale ending people never saw after Prince Charles and Diana tied the knot July 29, 1981.
I, for one, am at least pulling for them.
If nothing else that will make all this excessive unnecessary media coverage I have been exposed to in both print and broadcast journalism since last November all the more worth it.
©4/27/11
