The run up to the wedding is in full flow. Every day there’s a news segment on it.
Just looked at the BBC News website and there’s a new story every hour. How the choir boys are preparing for it, Kate Middleton’s family tree, Royal Wedding souvenirs, how annoying over smiley faced Cat Deeley is presenting the wedding on CNN and that the King of Swaziland is going. That’s all within a span of seven hours.
I caught the family tree story on the six o’clock news, it was about how going back a few generations on Kate Middleton’s mothers side they were from a mining town in County Durham. Some members of her family still live there. They talked to her cousin who owns a chip shop, he’s not going to the wedding.
I wonder when he last saw Kate. I’ve got relatives that I’ve not seen since I was a kid. I’ve got second cousins that I wouldn’t recognise if they knocked on my door and introduced their self’s. I have a first cousin who is a deacon (or something like that) in the Church of England. His life is a world away from mine and I’ve not seen him for about seventeen years.
Princess Diana was portrayed as ‘the peoples princess’ and ‘the queen of hearts’ and all that rubbish. Lets not also pretend that Kate Middleton is from a poor family that made good. It’s obvious that she isn’t, she’s an upper middle class girl. The report briefly mentioned that her fathers background comes from money, well he must be if he’s going to pay for this massive wedding. Oh, wait a minute, the taxpayer is.
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