Not many were lucky enough to witness the magic moment when the portal opened...
This is a holding post – there will be more! I promise. But here is proof that the royal wedding really did take place at least partly in an alternative universe, which merely bore an uncanny resemblance to our own city.
We had already suspected it, of course.
Thanks to my friend Karen’s Facebook page.
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Dear Katy
I thought that Simon Schama summed it up best when he said that the British are great at cynicism, but the royal wedding was not an occasion for cynicism but celebration. I reluctantly agree with him.
Best wishes from Simon
I thought it looked like a giant butterfly mating with her hairline.
Love the pic.
Daily Mirror rather unkind this morning by finding fault with princess B’s “panda eyes”. Which, unlike the hat, she didn’t get to choose.
Another paper the other day (forget which) pointing out, also rather unkindly, that April 29th was the day in 1945 when Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun. Similarities ?
Nanoo Nanoo!
This picture gives me joy each time I check in to see if you’ve written anything else about trw. I know I should subscribe by RSS, but I’d miss the pictures then, wouldn’t I?
Is that a real cat? Beatrice and Eugenie do look like a couple of thick but jolly girls, fond of practical jokes
Yes Ms Beswick, ‘thick but jolly’ like their parents. It is well-documented that tiny Andrew terrorised palace footmen and they all loathed him for it.
Katy, I pricked up my ears when I got this on feed, and am glad Joe is now off entertaining Mr.Sloane. I did not want to be the one to say it.
and the princess ensemble and coiffure is actually all very stylish and lovely.
The catflap image and the Fbook page are of course, just hysterical, and thanks.
Ms O’D, I know, that was funny, wasn’t it? The awful things that can come of being too tired. I saw it the second I’d hit publish. And of course “Orson” in Mork & Mindy was this great big Welles-like figure, intended to be. What could be more disparate?
Kate,it must be a real cat. Photographs never lie.
Anne, I spent the rest of yesterday – till 10pm in fact – scrubbing the abode of my firstborn, whose landlord is coming to see the place (and renew the lease) on Tuesday. Unlike the royals, no one in this family has the money to get him a deposit for a new place, and I knew the kids were slightly out of their depth, so I went and did my thing. (They were helping; and today they have much more to do, including carpet-cleaning and lawn-mowing, and one more room, and I’m very proud of them.) It couldn’t have been less like the royal wedding, except insofar as one wants to see the kids all right.
Oh and Python, it was her MAKE UP they were getting at! Admittedly she does have rather large starey eyes, and that is all the more reason why she didn’t need to be wearing w whole eyeliner all in one go. I’d heard the Eva Braun thing and thought it felt a bit irrelevant. Anyway, by this stage in their honeymoon they were dead. Though I might not have chosen that date myself – like having 666 in your phone number. I would ask for a different phone number.
Simon, oh God, Simon Schama, that’s who that was. Well, “cynicism” is a big word to throw around. I didn’t feel cynical about it, but I’m sure many people will have been uncomfortable for reasons that are more authentic than merely being “cynical.” Yes, celebration, but, for us, really, of what? By the next morning it was all over and they were suddenly back to being a couple of insanely rich people, “relaxed and fresh after their party,” not clearing it up, and being helicoptered off to their secret honeymoon location – while the rest of us got back on with looking for work, clearing up from the day before, and trying to make sure out children will still have a place to live. I don’t know. I don’t think that’s cynical. We have very pressing concerns at the moment, more pressing than those people. I’m glad they’re happy, I really am.
Dear Katy
I actually agree with you. Events like this tend to divide the country into servile subjects on the one hand and po-faced republican party poopers on the other. People like you and me, who are neither, find ourselves (like the Liberal Democrats) on a hiding to nothing!
Best wishes from Simon
Very well put! (Now where’s my yellow tie…?)
Okay, get it about the eyeliner.
I just tried, just then, as I was about to write here, to get into the mind of the Very Strange Person who designed that hat. But no, I can’t go there.
Maybe this is why SamCam eschewed the whole hat thing. A dress, even an ill-chosen one, can probably elicit only a few sniggers, whereas a weird hat. . .
We have been avoiding this event as much as possible… though the US TV coverage is entertaining in its way (giant countdown on the news…) so this is my first view of that hat (via the only news service that really matters). It’s actually slightly less bizarre with the cat added…
OMG, that hat, that cat in the hat.