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Those kids can't do right for doing wrong. They've bent over backwards not to have any media attention, they fell in love and want to get married, they have tried to take every sensitive issue into account. FGS, let them get on with their lives. I won't be glued to watch it, but they are entitled to love each other and get married, just as we all are. The reason it's a State Occasion is because we still have a Monarchy, like it or lump it.

cologne 1
Originally Posted by Cagney:

Me and the kids are looking forward to it.  

 

After reading all these replies though I'm a bit  to say I'm gonna be buying bunting, napkins and plates to have our indoor picnic on 

Aww Cags, you go ahead and enjoy it in whatever way you wish. As long as you are not forcing anyone to join you against their will, no-one will mind and you shouldn't feel embarrassed about it.

Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing
Originally Posted by Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing:
Originally Posted by Antiope:

I'm disappointed no one has made an ill-judged, bellicose remark that, like that bloke who said he was gonna blow up Stanstead or wherever, results in some exciting, hot, MI5 swoop action.

Plenty of time for that yet, Antiope.

We have a hot line to MI5 at our street party.....we are alert....our kingdom needs lerts!

Syd
Originally Posted by Cagney:

Me and the kids are looking forward to it.  

 

After reading all these replies though I'm a bit  to say I'm gonna be buying bunting, napkins and plates to have our indoor picnic on 

 

I'll be watching! I'm not a Royal lover ..... but I do like a good wedding! I'll be ooohing and ahhhing at my TV like a good 'un.

 

I won't be doing the bunting thing.....but we'll be having a few nibbles and making it special. Mind you...we used to do that with the BB opening night too.......any excuse will do

Ducky
Originally Posted by Ducky:
Originally Posted by Cagney:

Me and the kids are looking forward to it.  

 

After reading all these replies though I'm a bit  to say I'm gonna be buying bunting, napkins and plates to have our indoor picnic on 

 

I'll be watching! I'm not a Royal lover ..... but I do like a good wedding! I'll be ooohing and ahhhing at my TV like a good 'un.

 

I won't be doing the bunting thing.....but we'll be having a few nibbles and making it special. Mind you...we used to do that with the BB opening night too.......any excuse will do

 

 We're watching it too The boy is going to a flight simulator thingy that day. As my son has inherited both mine and his father's genes when it comes to tolerance, I'm not sure venturing anywhere near Kensington when there will be 100,000 odd tourists milling about is the best idea in the world, but I ain't going so I will be sympathising from the comfort of my sofa whilst flicking V's at the Queen

Karma_
Last edited by Karma_

What a miserable grumpy bunch of old gits some of you lot are. !!!  We've had nothing like this for 3 decades, and it's something to life the spirits of the nation, and all people do is whinge whinge whinge... go to bed and do your knitting for the day if you don't want to see it and let people enjoy it who like a bit of fun.  I'm sure Harry Enfield and Catherine Tate did characters that were quite representative of some of the people on here... 

 

            

FM
Originally Posted by Carnelian:

BTW OP, aren't napkins made of lace (or similar) and serviettes made of paper?  Isn't it just over-correcting when people insist on calling serviettes napkins?

 

I could be talking bollocks of, course.

I just have an aversion to the word **shudders** serviette - like gusset or toilet. I know paper napkins is a bad alternative but it's the best I can do.

Cariad
Originally Posted by cologne 1:

Those kids can't do right for doing wrong. They've bent over backwards not to have any media attention, they fell in love and want to get married, they have tried to take every sensitive issue into account. FGS, let them get on with their lives. I won't be glued to watch it, but they are entitled to love each other and get married, just as we all are. The reason it's a State Occasion is because we still have a Monarchy, like it or lump it.

I don't have a problem with them getting married at all and at least these two look like they're in love "whatever love means" to coin a well known phrase.  I don't even have an issue with it being a "state occasion" - it's handy for the tourist trade and all that.

 

What is really annoying me is the media feeding frenzy and the whole hoo-haa that's going on around it - did we really need an hour of Middletons on the telly last night? Do we need news reports on how the US is preparing for the big day? Do I need to fight my way through a swathe of red, white and blue or listen to radio programmes discussing the history of royal wedding memorabilia?

Cariad

I like big events like this (and the Olympics, World Cups etc.). I'm in two minds about taking my family to try and see some of the procession on the route (we're about a 10 min walk from Westminster) or watch it on the telly. I might buy a commemorative mug to go with my Charles and Diana and Charles and Camilla ones but wont be doing the bunting gubbins. My 2 year old twin girls are a little exited at the whole princess thing (they don't really get the rest of the fuss or significance). I remember my grandmother telling me how exiting the Queen's wedding was in 1947 and how it brightened up the country for a brief moment during post-war austerity. If there has to be a monarchy then it's nice to see things done with a little pomp.

suzybean
Originally Posted by KaffyBaffy:
Originally Posted by Cagney:

Me and the kids are looking forward to it.  

 

After reading all these replies though I'm a bit  to say I'm gonna be buying bunting, napkins and plates to have our indoor picnic on 

I love picnics  - can I come?  

You should know by now my house has an "everyone welcome" policy 

 

Cagney
Originally Posted by Cagney:
 

 

I love picnics  - can I come?  

You should know by now my house has an "everyone welcome" policy 

 


Whoop!   I'm still drooling at the huge list of nibbley things you got for that night in with telly.    My kinda catering!      *goes off to buy Union Jack flag*    I shall bring Pimms... it seems fitting (and a 40 oz'er of Vodka of course)

Kaffs
Originally Posted by suzybean:

I like big events like this (and the Olympics, World Cups etc.). I'm in two minds about taking my family to try and see some of the procession on the route (we're about a 10 min walk from Westminster) or watch it on the telly. I might buy a commemorative mug to go with my Charles and Diana and Charles and Camilla ones but wont be doing the bunting gubbins. My 2 year old twin girls are a little exited at the whole princess thing (they don't really get the rest of the fuss or significance). I remember my grandmother telling me how exiting the Queen's wedding was in 1947 and how it brightened up the country for a brief moment during post-war austerity. If there has to be a monarchy then it's nice to see things done with a little pomp.

I went to the wedding of Charles and Diana. I stood in the crowd outside Buckingham Palace and cheered. We all slept the night in Hyde Park - there were loads of people there. It was a great experience and I am so glad that I did it.

FM
Originally Posted by El Loro:

I see ftom the Radio Times that BBC1 and ITV each have around 8 hours of coverage of the wedding.

 

BBC 2 has scheduled the western "Duel in the Son" at the time of the wedding service. This is the one where at the end of the film the two lovers shoot each other to bits, way beyond a shotgun marriage.

nice choice of film

FM

I watched it in middle school and was sent out cos I kept talking about the state of Diana's dress Well it was a crumpled heap ffs. I got back in for the main nuptials, though. I read her book written by that Andrew Morton bloke and she said it was the most unhappiest day of her life cos Charles and Camilla were carrying on, apparently Camilla had sent him personalised C&C cufflinks a couple of days before. Would have pissed me off an all to be fair.

Karma_
Originally Posted by Karma_:

I watched it in middle school and was sent out cos I kept talking about the state of Diana's dress Well it was a crumpled heap ffs. I got back in for the main nuptials, though. I read her book written by that Andrew Morton bloke and she said it was the most unhappiest day of her life cos Charles and Camilla were carrying on, apparently Camilla had sent him personalised C&C cufflinks a couple of days before. Would have pissed me off an all to be fair.


Tragic what Diana went thru

FM
Originally Posted by Karma_:

I watched it in middle school and was sent out cos I kept talking about the state of Diana's dress Well it was a crumpled heap ffs. I got back in for the main nuptials, though. I read her book written by that Andrew Morton bloke and she said it was the most unhappiest day of her life cos Charles and Camilla were carrying on, apparently Camilla had sent him personalised C&C cufflinks a couple of days before. Would have pissed me off an all to be fair.

hello chick  yep, the poor girl was a lamb to the slaughter, but she got savvy enough later though. And that dress was a disaster, I can my mum saying it needed a good ironing.

suzybean

Hiya SuzyB xxxx et al x

 

Initially I totally bought into Diana's version of events, I don't think they were falsehoods, but seeing how she managed to manipulate the press in later years I do wonder how much of that was exaggerated or not quite telling the whole story. I can believe her being totally miserable on her wedding day as she had only been with him for a few months and was then fast tracked to a wedding which was more for the public then it was for the 2 getting hitched. She was young and naive but what she did do was shake the foundations of a Monarchy that had always seemed so untouchable to the rest of us. The tit for tat interviews with her and Charles were something I never thought I would see. I'm not a royalist by any stretch of the imagination but I do hope what happened with Diana has left a legacy of harsh lessons within Buckingham Palace and that Kate is continued to be allowed to be herself.

Karma_
Originally Posted by Karma_:

I watched it in middle school and was sent out cos I kept talking about the state of Diana's dress Well it was a crumpled heap ffs. I got back in for the main nuptials, though. I read her book written by that Andrew Morton bloke and she said it was the most unhappiest day of her life cos Charles and Camilla were carrying on, apparently Camilla had sent him personalised C&C cufflinks a couple of days before. Would have pissed me off an all to be fair.

Why were you at school...everyone else got a day off?

Croctacus

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