Sunday, April 10, 2005
royal wedding
Raking up enthusiasm for blogging between efforts to catch up on correspondence, a hellish week at work and the necessity to get my house in order before flying out again at the end of next week has not been easy.
The Royal Wedding coverage tonight on Channel 9 with -fortunately- most of it crossed to BBC's coverage finally overcame my exhaustion and lack of motivation.
I grew up in an Australia where the Royal family was the highlight of our otherwise dull and parochial lives. Nowadays, I think most of us can take them or leave them and the soap opera their goings on have evolved into over recent years means we don't take them all that seriously any more.
Nevertheless, I maintain a reasonable knowledge of who is who and am always attracted to watch any ceremonial occasions. I'm pretty liberal in my ceremonies as I spent the afternoon watching a re-run of the pope's funeral while I caught up on ironing and shoe cleaning tasks!
Charles and Camilla and all that's gone on has left me feeling that he's a bit of a joke and she is just a boring, horsey woman and they are an unattractive middle aged couple not at all worthy of my interest but I still couldn't resist a peek at the Royal Wedding.
Much to my surprise I saw that this boring middle aged couple looked happy. This might be the first time I can ever remember Charles looking happy. He made tender gestures towards her, albeit in the restrained royal way. They actually looked as though they genuinely loved each other. And not only that, Camilla looked beautiful and dignified and I can't imagine how difficult that was to pull off with all the constraints that would have been on her, plus the definite disadvantage of being a fairly ordinary looking middle aged woman rather than movie star material.
The ceremony at King George Chapel at Windsor was elegant and worth watching just for the music and the readings and the sheer glory of the building.
The only downside was the drippy channel 9 presenter who obviously knew nothing about the royals, nor the history of the chapel - the best description she could come up with was that 'lots of royals' have been married there. She then went on to describe the new Mrs Windsor as The Princess of Wales, which title has not been given to her, and spent the rest of her time on camera dripping on about them loving each other for 30 years which she qualified by saying except for the 15 years of the Prince's marriage to Diana. Where has this woman been for the past 20 years? She was done up in a fluoro pink ballgown with a huge glittery necklace which was quite a bit over the top for the occasion. The only other thing the Channel 9 team contributed was an interview with Diana Fisher - a snobbish, stupid and loud-mouthed woman who managed to gain some fame in Australia simply on the basis that she was related to the Archbishop of Canterbury. As I said, we're pretty isolated here and sometimes it shows.
I wonder when Australia (and I) will grow up and lose this passion for the pommie royals.
The Royal Wedding coverage tonight on Channel 9 with -fortunately- most of it crossed to BBC's coverage finally overcame my exhaustion and lack of motivation.
I grew up in an Australia where the Royal family was the highlight of our otherwise dull and parochial lives. Nowadays, I think most of us can take them or leave them and the soap opera their goings on have evolved into over recent years means we don't take them all that seriously any more.
Nevertheless, I maintain a reasonable knowledge of who is who and am always attracted to watch any ceremonial occasions. I'm pretty liberal in my ceremonies as I spent the afternoon watching a re-run of the pope's funeral while I caught up on ironing and shoe cleaning tasks!
Charles and Camilla and all that's gone on has left me feeling that he's a bit of a joke and she is just a boring, horsey woman and they are an unattractive middle aged couple not at all worthy of my interest but I still couldn't resist a peek at the Royal Wedding.
Much to my surprise I saw that this boring middle aged couple looked happy. This might be the first time I can ever remember Charles looking happy. He made tender gestures towards her, albeit in the restrained royal way. They actually looked as though they genuinely loved each other. And not only that, Camilla looked beautiful and dignified and I can't imagine how difficult that was to pull off with all the constraints that would have been on her, plus the definite disadvantage of being a fairly ordinary looking middle aged woman rather than movie star material.
The ceremony at King George Chapel at Windsor was elegant and worth watching just for the music and the readings and the sheer glory of the building.
The only downside was the drippy channel 9 presenter who obviously knew nothing about the royals, nor the history of the chapel - the best description she could come up with was that 'lots of royals' have been married there. She then went on to describe the new Mrs Windsor as The Princess of Wales, which title has not been given to her, and spent the rest of her time on camera dripping on about them loving each other for 30 years which she qualified by saying except for the 15 years of the Prince's marriage to Diana. Where has this woman been for the past 20 years? She was done up in a fluoro pink ballgown with a huge glittery necklace which was quite a bit over the top for the occasion. The only other thing the Channel 9 team contributed was an interview with Diana Fisher - a snobbish, stupid and loud-mouthed woman who managed to gain some fame in Australia simply on the basis that she was related to the Archbishop of Canterbury. As I said, we're pretty isolated here and sometimes it shows.
I wonder when Australia (and I) will grow up and lose this passion for the pommie royals.
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