Royal wedding spoof
Some of you are asking “what royal wedding?” Well, if the media frenzy hasn’t ramped up yet, just wait. It will.
Here in Canada there’s an expectation of hyper-attention to the April 29th wedding of Prince William to Catherine “Kate” Middleton. So much so that election analysts consider that almost a lost week for the current federal election campaigns. (People can’t think of two events at once, can they?)
The wedding itself is on Friday April 29th, but be warned! We are talking about 6 am Friday the 29th. With TV coverage starting at something like 3 am that morning. Ugh!
CTV Ottawa has some snippet of pre-wedding something on every nightly newscast, not to mention a web site and a count-down clock. (As I type this it reads “11 days, 18 hours and 38 minutes.” Um, OK.)
I asked our son, a 20-year-old engineering student, if he’d heard of the wedding and got a grudging yes. Asking if he cared produced an emphatic “No!” I pressed to know if he had peers who were paying any attention? That got a full eye-roll: “Yes, a lot of girls seem to care.”
I am sure he’s right, the gender imbalance on getting up at the crack of dawn to watch two young people march down an abbey aisle will tilt more heavily on one side.
But for anyone who thinks the pomp, the hype, the fawning focus are just too much to endure, here is a rather well-done spoof (By T-Mobile). It puts a smile on the day with a good beat you can dance to.
So here’s to love and the prospect that a man named William and a woman named Kate have found that precious treasure, in spite of having to make a show of it for the whole world to see.
Tags: Royal wedding, T-mobile spoof
“CTV Ottawa has some snippet of pre-wedding something on every nightly newscast, not to mention a web site and a count-down clock. (As I type this it reads “11 days, 18 hours and 38 minutes.” Um, OK.)”
This is the media at its absolute very worst; CBC is no better!
Until reading your post I was aware that one of those prince guys was going to marry a young brunette named Kate. But I had no idea it was to be so soon.
I can understand that Canadians would be excited (and congratulations to you all up there on the addition to your royal gene pool) but I don’t get people in the States being so fascinated. Didn’t we fight a couple wars to be rid of those people?
And why wouldn’t it be “Cate”?
From my long ago experience of living in London, Americans love the British royalty much more than the brits do. It’s a tourist industry (with benefits to the royal family).