Some of you are asking “what royal wedding?” Well, if the media frenzy hasn’t ramped up yet, just wait. It will.<\/p>\n
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?)<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n
CTV Ottawa has some snippet of pre-wedding something on every nightly newscast, not to mention\u00a0 a web site<\/a> and a count-down clock. (As I type this it reads “11 days, 18 hours and 38 minutes.”\u00a0 Um, OK.)<\/p>\n 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?\u00a0 That got a full eye-roll: “Yes, a lot of girls seem to care.”<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n