You know, Prince Charles paints
amateur watercolors
that are very nice.
Any woman that
makes an amateur painter
happy is okay
in my book. I think
it's a sign of something deep,
almost mystical . . .
Posted on 11/05/2005 4:06:17 AM PST by yoe
By the south portico of the White House this week, alongside the world's most powerful couple and the heir to the British throne, stood a shy, perplexed-looking woman, comfortably into her 50s. While the Bushes and the Prince of Wales stared professionally at the cameras, all stiff jaws and distant gazes, the little-known figure in their midst gave an uncertain squint and a goofy smile. This whole circus of public life was obviously as strange to her as the average snowball can be to a lowland Ethiopian.
[snip]"Over 'ere, Duchess!" shouted one of the photographers from the London press corps, hoping to catch her attention. She obliged him with a wonky grin before moving inside for lunch with Mr. and Mrs. President. As she walked into the White House, she avoided treading on the red carpet. They're for VIPs, after all, not the likes of plain old her.
[snip]But hang on. Here is a mature, warm woman, well lived-in like a country club armchair. She's affectionate, unsnobby and has finally won the prince of her dreams. She dresses sensibly without upstaging others and is never more comfortable than in the muddy shires of England with a wet gundog at her hearth and a gin and tonic in her fist. Yes, she has laughter lines.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
We aren't reading more at the wsj without a subscription. So I'll just have to work some triangulation.
Ouch.
Why would the WSJ waste their time on such an unimportant topic?
Slow news day? :)
They have a lot of pages to fill?
I thought that there would be an improvement in the WSJ when Al Hunt left, but it's gone from bad to worse.
Perhaps she is uncomfortable knowing that the whole world knows she is an adulteress.
An adultress. But nothing new to European royalty.
Give it a rest and leave her alone. She isnt doing anything but following her husband around. I recall that Diana didnt come across as too sophisticated at first.
War rages, Paris burns, Camilla wont walk on the red carpet. Film at 11.
Camilla arrived just in time to remind us of how scary we can be when we costume up for Halloween.
No pictures!
Paul Harvey had a cute bit about the menu for dinner at the White House dinner for Charles and Camilla.
It was buffalo steak...........what with mad cow and bird flu there were only two options. Buffalo steak or
Spam.................
Yes she is an adultress but she eventually married the man.
Diana never married any of the 40+ men she had affairs with.
The Charles and Camilla relationship started well before either were married and continued even after they were married to others with both their spouses having full knowledge of the relationships.
Forget Camilla, Seabiscuit or dog biscuit, who cares. What irks me is her horse-faced husband trying to tell us how to "get along" with terrorists.
I still have no sympathy for either of them.
You know, Prince Charles paints
amateur watercolors
that are very nice.
Any woman that
makes an amateur painter
happy is okay
in my book. I think
it's a sign of something deep,
almost mystical . . .
The article states that themes prevalent in country songs (patriotism, real-life, dirt roads, trucks, etc.) are making the city-folk in such places as New York City and San Francisco uncomfortable.
Apparently it is irksome that out in places like South Bend and Chattanooga they are not exactly grooving to "Bustin' in the Hood" by 50 Cents and "Smack my Bitch" by some other rapper that got shot at in some city street recently as he was leaving some trendy nightclub in his limousine.
Wholesome songs by such country artists as Gretchen Wilson, John Michael Montgomery, Sara Evans and George Strait have the blue states feeling mighty uncomfortable and peculiar.
I pity her cuckold husband. He is openly derided as "the man who gave his wife for his country."
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