News Royal Wedding Of Prince William Of Wales and Kate Middleton

Is the Royal Wedding "over-rated"?

  • Yes

    Votes: 48 75.0%

  • No

    Votes: 16 25.0%
  • Total voters
    64
FADEC said:
Don't they also do a lot of charity projects?
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Yeah, just look at the current wedding, because the couple didn't want any presents, but instead donate the money to any charity on a list they provided, the Australian government donated a pretty modest sum to the flying doctors.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Flying_Doctor_Service_of_Australia"]Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
 
Getting back to the original post, which was about the huge media coverage, it's interesting to contrast the widespread US news interest with the indifference of the US public:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/nytc...care-about-prince-william-and-kate-middleton/

According to the Atlantic Wire, a New York Times/CBS poll found that only six percent of Americans are following the wedding “very closely,” while 22% are following “somewhat closely.” This came as rather a surprise given the large amount of press the wedding is getting in America
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So why all the coverage? Because a Royal Wedding is a story custom-made for journalists - unimportant, uncontroversial and above all, simple. Journalists are simple-minded folk who have problems with science, politics and history, because these themes require a bit of thought and sometimes even research.

If they forget something which they should know about, then they get accused of dumbing-down the topic. But it's impossible to dumb down a royal wedding because it's already on the most basic level of human comprehension.

Cue the endless stories about cakes, rings, etiquette and dresses. Good simple fare for the masses, they ought to love it.

But in fact - according to this poll - they don't, which reassures me somewhat that the dumbing down of society hasn't gone as well as the media moguls would have desired. They'll just have to work harder at making us all obsessed with trivialities.
 
Last royal wedding I remember, the 1981 disaster featuring Prince Dumbo and Princess Haircut, all TV schedules in the UK were cleared to show this exciting event 24/7.

If you're talking about the BBC, I think you can say goodbye to the Doc during that week.
 
Robdotcom71 said:
Rowan Atkinson attending/invited? LOL
I seriously hope he does a Mr Bean at the wedding... :lol:
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7auvfjC8-0"]YouTube - Mr Bean - Headbuts the Queen[/ame]

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What I don't get with the royal sentiment thing is how if you aren't actively interested in the wedding, that automatically puts you into the "I hate the monarchy" camp.

I have no interest in the wedding whatsoever, but I don't hate the monarchy. I have no feelings one way or the other at the moment. The Queen is harmless. Of course, when she dies, if Charles takes over, then I may start actively hating the monarchy, cos he's a loon. But at the moment, I just don't give them any thought.

I hate things that are over-hyped, and this wedding easily fits into that category, but I don't hate the people involved. I will be doing my best to ignore the whole wedding thing entirely and hope that the media aftermath dies down reasonably quickly afterwards.
 
IMO there is something far more important that will be happening at 3:47 on April 29th.
Just my opinion of course.
 
The wedding is overtold and no one in america cares... The monarchy is old fassion and should be replaced by a democracy but i respect the queen... So the wedding gives me a chance to start riots against him and blame the monarchy for not giving us canada...
 
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fsci123 said:
The wedding is overtold and no one in america cares... The monarchy is old fassion and should be replaced by a democracy but i respect the queen... So the wedding gives me a chance to start riots against him and blame the monarchy for not giving us canada...
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Eh? As far as I know the UK is a constitutional monarchy, and the king/queen hasn't (or at least doesn't exercise) power, much like many other European nations, where the head of state, be it a monarch or a president like in Italy and Germany, isn't the holder of executive power.

Then again, the wedding doesn't receive constant coverage here in Italy, but I'm sure it will be covered better than STS-134 on the 29th.

I know what I'll be watching.
 
Fabri91 said:
Eh? As far as I know the UK is a constitutional monarchy, and the king/queen hasn't (or at least doesn't exercise) power, much like many other European nations, where the head of state, be it a monarch or a president like in Italy and Germany, isn't the holder of executive power.

Then again, the wedding doesn't receive constant coverage here in Italy, but I'm sure it will be covered better than STS-134 on the 29th.

I know what I'll be watching.
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Exactly correct. While the Queen is technically head of state, her actual power is never exercised, and a democratic government (Currently lead by one conservative Prime Minister and one former Lib Dem recently turned conservative hand puppet) actually gets on with the business of running the country while she's busy... you know... being regal.
 
Fabri91 said:
Then again, the wedding doesn't receive constant coverage here in Italy, but I'm sure it will be covered better than STS-134 on the 29th.
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I know that there will be 5 hours of the wedding coverage here on one of public TV channels, and probably it will be on news channels, which usually don't cover launches anyway but only mention that some Shuttle has launched, other channels have their usual schedules for that day, and I think NASA TV will have no wedding in their schedule either. :P
 
why is it more important than any other wedding - monarchy is abolished, the kings and queens and princes are not more important than te people anymore...
 
I will give MoD updates as they come:

1st Battalion the Irish Guards are complete with their Regimental mascot Irish Wolfhound Conmael.
 
Scotland is part of the UK, and people seem to forget that, and thats not what i'm worried about.. hear me out. The very fact that people internationally refer to the Queen as the Queen of England, or the Union Jack as England's flag says a lot about the Union. The media in Scotland is very English centred. Centred around England's holidays, England's problems and major political bias against Scottish parties such as the SNP, the party that governs Scotland through the devolved Scottish Parliament. The Scottish are getting sick of being part of Britain, we live in a country where just ONE constituency votes for the Conservatives in Scotland, yet because the majority of England has voted for them, we are ruled by the Conservatives. Its a clear sign of difference between the people's of each country, and the Royal Wedding today has made me think about that quite a lot. I have no Union Jacks in my house, I don't know anyone who does, and I am most certainly not watching the UK try to cling on to its empirical ''tradition''.. And I do not know anyone who is, or is genuinely interested. Hopefully today will make more Scots think about their place within the UK, and perhaps those in Wales and Northern Ireland too.. And especially England too. Its time for Devolution of all the home nations, so that one day we could all have our own independent nations and be friendly neighbours with one another.

Sorry if this sounds like a completely ignorant rant, but i'm not too eloquent went it comes to these matters at this time of day.

I will be celebrating the career of Endeavour today.
 
Only saw a snippet of it but William has one thing for him, he looks somewhat Char Aznable-ish in the red uniform. Now, if he had shown up in a red-painted Zaku, that would have been one awesome wedding. :lol:
 
Ghostrider said:
Only saw a snippet of it but William has one thing for him, he looks somewhat Char Aznable-ish in the red uniform. Now, if he had shown up in a red-painted Zaku, that would have been one awesome wedding. :lol:
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That will be done when Harry marries. :lol:

Gives the UK time to purchase some red-painted Zakus from Russia.
 
http://top.rbc.ru/politics/29/04/2011/584923.shtml

Russian President sent a gift to newly wed Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton: a varnished papier-mâché casket with miniature of 19's century's Moscow winter panorama featuring Christ the Saviour Cathedral. The casket was made at Fedoskino miniature painting souvenir factory.
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Wow, that's one royal gift! :rofl: If you didn't read the quoted piece carefully, it's not even a 19's century casket, it's a casket with painting of 19's century.

In case you want to have a casket just like that one, follow the link:

http://www.fedoskino.org/shop/lacquer-miniature-fedoskino-569.html

Casket 18 #343 "View of Christ the Saviour Cathedral"

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Dimensions: 176х139х63 mm
Material: papier-mâché, varnish painting, leaf-gold, mother-of-pearl
Cost: 31200 rubles

Well, at least when Kathy gets a baby, that baby will have something to play with. :rofl:
 
GoForPDI said:
Scotland is part of the UK, and people seem to forget that, and thats not what i'm worried about.. hear me out. The very fact that people internationally refer to the Queen as the Queen of England, or the Union Jack as England's flag says a lot about the Union.
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At least Scotland IS represented on the Union Flag! I see no dragons and not a hint of green on it... :thumbup:
 
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