The Royals and Their Weddings

Ever since William's mother got treated with utter disdain by his father, I have been way way over seeing anything worthy in the current British Royals.

They do have spectacular residences, and costumes and staff, all paid for by those who pay British taxes or fees or land rents or whatever. And I suppose they generate a certain input to the British treasury as a tourist attraction.  But my point is, they do nothing of real value to earn one cent as far as I can tell.

When Elizabeth last came to the US on an official visit and went down  a line of Congress people (and I am no fan of Nancy Polosi who well may still have had visible knife cuts from her last face lift), Elizabeth greeted her, Polosi introduced her husband, which was probably not good protocol, and then Elizabeth walked forward but kept her head turned staring at Polosi for a long period of time. I thought it quite rude on Elizabeth's part. I suppose having been deferred to since birth by simmpering staff and every want immediately produced, she feels no need to forgo being rude.

As far as I am concerned, the posh wedding was sad. How fascinated I was watching the wedding of Diana and Charles only to learn later the whole thing was a sham. He never loved her. He needed a virgin (?) bride to supply the crown with an heir and a spare. She did her job and was then humiliated by the man she had once gazed at with such adoration.

So now the British Royals, one of the wealthiest families on earth, produce another wedding spectacle costing millions attended by family and guests wearing the most outlandish outfits any designer could dream up. With the exception of the Middleton girls who dressed with great style. Many of the young women relatives were made up to look like tarts. See Beatrice and Eugenie. Amazing.

I wish the newlyweds well, but am pessimistic about the long term. I hope I am wrong.

My problem is Kate Middleton, now the Duchess of Cambridge, gazes at William in the same way his tragic mother once gazed at his father.