Fruitcake is traditional English wedding cake. It’s not like ours (well, it is, but they like it and it tastes and looks different).
I know what exotropia is, I don’t know who Lady Louise is!
Never mind–I looked her up. She’s Edward’s eldest. She looks a great deal like the Queen, at least in her baby pic. I didn’t notice her eyes.
What was with William’s hand-waving? Did Jim Henson tutor him from the grave?
Dressing like a toy soldier and waving like a muppet puts the pantomime back into the pageantry; along with all those ridiculous hats and fascinators.
Fascinator, indeed. Fascinating you could put something like that on your head and not be pointed and laughed at. Well, actually they were. By me.
Beatrice and Eugenie were dressed as a dare. Even if they *did *collect that tenner, they both lost. And I’m sure Harry declared ‘Tally-ho, Pip Pip’ at the reception to alert her to the joint the footman had prepared and presented on a red velvet pillow.
William is crap at sex. You can tell by the hee-haw look on his face after the kiss that was supposed to make up for the rubbish one and didn’t. That he said to Kate when she arrived at the alter “I hope you’re not wearing any undies” still doesn’t make him hot in bed. And it’s not Kate who’ll lie back and think of England, it’s her mother. What a hard-faced, coniving bitch she looks, eh? “From coal-mining family to royalty in just four generations…” is something she has timelined on a whiteboard in her bedroom, with little crown stickers and lots of arrows.
Kate’s man-hands will be great for tearing apart that lobster at the reception.
Roomie was watching the wedding (for the third(?) time), and so I was watching it. She noted the Queen looked tired, and she was amused that she went inside after the fly-over. ‘Everyone in side! Grandma needs a nap!’
So I said in a falsetto, ‘And that curry I had for breakfast wants to come out!’ She said, ‘Don’t go there.’
Here’s a nice pic of her with Harry, who got stuck in the kiddy carriage on the ride back to Buck House, just as Edward did in '81: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/29/article-1381870-0BD4093A00000578-358_634x446.jpg
Not reading the rest of the thread, so this may have already been covered.
When William and Kate were at the altar giving their vows, did it look like Kate was biting her lip to keep from laughing or even smiling. It sure looked like it to me.
That was at the “…or poorer..” bit. It was the set-up for her “Let them eat cake!” remark at the reception.
Wedding cake is fruitcake! (Well, mine wasn’t, because I don’t much like it, but traditionally, wedding cake is always a rich fruit cake, usually with royal icing and marzipan, like Christmas cake.)
And of course Andrew and Fergie in the 80s.
I heard someone mention the Queen’s status as a great-granny at some point. I guess Princess Anne’s son had a child?
Yeah - first great-grandchild for the Queen is Savannah Phillips. 12th in line to the throne. (Until William and Kate come up with the goods of course, in June 2012.)
I wonder if anyone’s asked Kate if she’s pregnant yet?
As I saw the Queen and Phillip and Charles and Camilla sitting together, I couldn’t help but wonder where Diana (and her significant other) would have been seated if she were living.
I do wish the coverage would have included some of the other royals. (Maybe I missed it) I don’t think I saw any of Charles brothers/sister or their children (except Beatrice and Eugenie).
So why does Sir Elton John get an invitation, and not Sir James Paul McCartney?
Google image search shows this:
http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/gty_rowan_atkinson_nt_110429_ssh.jpg
No smile, looks rather glum.
Sir Elton had a long, close personal friendship with the groom’s mother. He was invited as a family friend. I don’t recall ever hearing about Sir Paul having a similar relationship with the family.
So, no immediate honeymoon. William is back to work next week
Yes, you missed it. Lady Louise (Prince Edward and Sophie’s daughter) was a flower girl; Princess Scowly-Faced Anne was there; Lady Zarah Phillips was there with her broken-nosed fiance; Prince Andrew arrived in the car with Beatrice and Eugenie; and Prince Edward and Sophie Countess of Wessex were there as well.
Wally was there too. But nobody could find him.
Yes, I know they were there, but I don’t know them when I see them. Watching repeats on BBC and TLC, they were not spotlighted and identified with a caption. Nor were many of the other guests.
I recognized Elton John and that was about it. And yes, I would get an F on a pop culture quiz.
dress 2 was very nice with the glittery belt and furry shruggie. wonder who made it to harry’s survivor breakfast. i’ll bet on the york girls.
they were trying to be somber during the vows. you could see they just wanted to grin like loons through the whole thing.
Recognising Elton John means you would get an ‘A’ in pop culture. The ‘F(-)’ you’ve earned is in British Royal Family History.