I might be mistaken, but the U.S. won its independence from Britain quite a few years ago. You'd never know it based on all the hoopla about the impending royal wedding. NBC News, for example, is sending a team of reporters to England a week before to capture every minute leading up to nuptials. Every day, there are stories with insipid details about who is designing the cake, why William won't wear a wedding band and where he plans to sleep the night before he gets married (his dad's, if you must know).
In the words of our former masters, bloody hell!!
Americans like polls, so let me take one. If William weren't marrying Kate Middleton and doing whole the cake/gown wedding thing, would you give two cents about these people? What has he done that is so awe-inspiring that people are willing to set their alarm clocks and rise at three a.m. to watch him take a trip down the aisle? Don't tell me people love the royal family so much that they want to be there to witness this right of passage. There's no way. The Queen, Fergie, Prince Charles, Princess Margaret, the whole Windsor lot, are a group of entitled monarchs that most people don't relate to. They do little for England and nothing for the world. They are only public figures because of the absurdity that is inherited monarchy.
Yet Americans are eating up every second of this crazy pageantry. At the office, I inadvertently offended someone by declaring, when asked, that only mindless idiots would be watching the wedding. I remember being eight or something and my mother waking me up early to watch the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. I didn't understand the hoopla and the actual event had no impact on my life, other than making me extra tired for the rest of the day.
Personally I think William and Kate should buck the whole system, elope to Haiti, work for six months with locals to rebuild the country, and then release a Tweet with photos. I could get behind that.
In the words of our former masters, bloody hell!!
Americans like polls, so let me take one. If William weren't marrying Kate Middleton and doing whole the cake/gown wedding thing, would you give two cents about these people? What has he done that is so awe-inspiring that people are willing to set their alarm clocks and rise at three a.m. to watch him take a trip down the aisle? Don't tell me people love the royal family so much that they want to be there to witness this right of passage. There's no way. The Queen, Fergie, Prince Charles, Princess Margaret, the whole Windsor lot, are a group of entitled monarchs that most people don't relate to. They do little for England and nothing for the world. They are only public figures because of the absurdity that is inherited monarchy.
Yet Americans are eating up every second of this crazy pageantry. At the office, I inadvertently offended someone by declaring, when asked, that only mindless idiots would be watching the wedding. I remember being eight or something and my mother waking me up early to watch the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. I didn't understand the hoopla and the actual event had no impact on my life, other than making me extra tired for the rest of the day.
Personally I think William and Kate should buck the whole system, elope to Haiti, work for six months with locals to rebuild the country, and then release a Tweet with photos. I could get behind that.
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