And today's is the Royal Wedding. What's the point in writing about that? There's gonna be no shortage of bloggers posting about it.
Actually I feel like ranting about it now. If you don't know, today, the UK's Prince William is getting married to Kate Middleton. It's the biggest royal wedding since Charles and Camilla tied the knot in 2005, but no one gives a toss about their ugly tush!
It's such a big deal cos' Willy is gonna be the next King and, in the UK at least, William and Kate are pretty popular; the type of couple who have a 40 page special in Hello! magazine cos' they bought a new sofa for their mansion.
You can generally separate the Brits into 2 categories on the subject of the wedding:
1: Those who couldn't give a flying furry toss about it. Take my Granddad for instance. He's as working class English as they come. He likes nothing more than a pint of bitter, a steak pie and watching an episode of Fred Dibnah. To him, the fact that the tax payer gives the royal family something like 50 million quid a year is completely ludicrous. A real man goes out and gets his hands dirty for a living! If there's a murder mystery on the other side were the husband kills the wife, he'll definitely be watching that instead of the wedding
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13230115
2: Then there's the people who think it's a dream come true that our Prince has found the love of his life, and will now put on a tremendous ceremony for the whole world to see, carrying on one of our finest traditions and cementing William as the heir to the throne.
Take my Nan for instance: she's got pictures of Princess Diana and the Pope on the wall, yet she never goes to church, she drinks, she smokes and she swears. Yet, today, she'll have cleaned the house top to bottom, a doylie will be on top of the TV and a St. George's cross will be in the window.
She'll be drinking vasts amounts of English tea, eating crumpets and saying how wonderful it is. But tonight, she'll probably put on all her gold and go down the pub.
But apart from her, there are people who have been camped outside Westminster Abbey for a few days so that they can get a good view of the wedding. There's people paying big bucks for commemorative plates and mugs that have a picture of the happy couple on.
If you've ever read my blog, you probably think that I don't care about the wedding. But, in fact, I really want to see it. Not for the romance of it, I don't think there is any romance in it, I think it's quite a manufactured event. If William wasn't in line for the throne would someone as beautiful as Kate ever looked twice at his kip? I think not.
I want to watch it cos' it's a show. A show that won't be happening again with such significance till Willy is ready to pop his cloggs. The whole of the royal family is just one big real life soap opera. Our country is basically a republic. Sure, the Queen has some power, for instance she can send us to war. But let's see her try and send our soldiers anywhere, the British public will tell her to sod right off!
The wedding should be really interesting, I can't wait to see it. Here's where you can catch it if you haven't got access to it http://www.royalweddinglive.tv/
In the mean time watch these videos, they're brilliant.
Kevla
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