Public 'has right to be at Charles wedding'

The Evening Standard ^ | February 21, 2005 | Patrick Sawer and Robert Jobson

[MadIvan]

I'm trying not to snicker too much about this - the whole mess does confirm that it's definitely going to be King William V as our next monarch.

God Save the Queen! God Save the Future King!

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[G.Love]

You mean there are members of the general public who actually want to attend this wedding? Why?

[Imaverygooddriver]

Why don`t they have an ego fest filled marriage like Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones did at the Plaza hotel with the press and plastic surgery freaks then pose with their spawn splashed on every 2 bit rag for a buck?

[kingattax]

Free fish and chips ?

[MadIvan]

I have no idea. I certainly don't want to go. The whole business leaves a sour taste because of the circumstances in which it has come to being. If Charles had met Camilla after Diana's death, I would be happy for the man. But as she was always the mistress, the whole affair is unseemly.

Regards, Ivan

[jslade]

Drats! Can't make it. Will send card instead.

[G.Love]

Of course the most dignified approach would be a short Justice-of-the-Peace ceremony. No public, no fancy clothes, no photographers.

Maybe they should go to Vegas.

[MadIvan]

Maybe they should go to Vegas.

I would be in favour of that, complete with Charles and Camilla spending their wedding night in a hotel room that had a vibrating, heart-shaped bed.

Regards, Ivan

[Androcles]

He already did that for his first wedding....

[Miss Marple]

I can't believe that with all those people that work at the palace and follow the minutiae of royal tradition and protocol, NO ONE knew about this. Charles has to get married in a church, but the church can't marry them because of Camilla's divorce. If they are married in the Guildhall, they have to let the public in and plus the marriage isn't legal according to the 1836 Act.

Maybe they will get married in an Episcopal Church here in the states. LOL!

[MadIvan]

It's pretty clear that Charles and Camilla's wedding caught everyone, including the Prime Minister, on the hop. No advice was possible under those circumstances. His own fault, really.

Regards, Ivan

[A Jovial Cad]

Thank heavens that I live in a free country that did away with all of that extraneous frippery in 1776 when we booted the whole silly Monarchical kit & kaboodle out of these United States...

God Bless the Constitution of the United States, and this honorable nation--a boast & toast I can proudly make freely, as the citizen of a genuine Republic unencumbered by the silliness of bowing, even rhetorically, to Kings & Queens & Crowns of any kind...

[MadIvan]

Thank heavens that I live in a free country that did away with all of that extraneous frippery in 1776 when we booted the whole silly Monarchical kit & kaboodle out of these United States...

Yes, instead you have Paris Hilton, OJ Simpson and the Kennedy clan. Good job.

God Bless the Constitution of the United States, and this honorable nation--a boast & toast I can proudly make freely, as the citizen of a genuine Republic unencumbered by the silliness of bowing, even rhetorically, to Kings & Queens & Crowns of any kind...

No, instead you impute tremendous powers to the President. If you think that you're not expected to show some level of deference and respect to the President of the United States, you haven't been conscious recently.

Ivan

[Miss Marple]

Lots of people don't understand the concept of a head of state separate from a political leader. Most Americans are so used to our way of government that they don't understand that it is HIGHLY UNUSUAL. And you are quite right...President Bush gets a level of deference not accorded Tony Blair, because he has to wear both hats.

No American can boast about how we don't "worship" royalty, while the Kennedy's sell their trash at Sotheby's and that Michael Jackson circus is on TV every day. Personally, when you look at what gets the star treatment here in the US, the British royals seem like a better deal.

[A Jovial Cad]

I'll take Paris Hilton--and the rest of it--over what you have as a culture any day, pardner.

At least I salute a flag that represents a glorious, largely-realized ideal--and not an empty crown with a thousand plus years (and counting) of flawed human ambitions and petty internecine history behind it.

[Miss Marple]

You know, we have a lot of British freepers, and since YOU didn't personally write the Constitution, I think it unnecessary to be boastful about our system, ESPECIALLY since it geve us 8 years of Bill Clinton.

You do not need to be so rude.

[MadIvan]

I'll take Paris Hilton--and the rest of it--over what you have as a culture any day, pardner.

That's your decision. It's a stupid decision, but liberty means both in the USA and UK, the freedom to be an idiot.

At least I salute a flag that represents a glorious, largely-realized ideal--and not an empty crown with a thousand plus years (and counting) of flawed human ambitions and petty internecine history behind it.

Without the history of this country you so obviously despise, you would not have the legacy of law, language and liberty that gives you the freedom to be the person you are. The results of that liberty, in your case, are less than appealing. Fortunately others make up for that.

Ivan

[Dr.Zoidberg]

With Chuck and Cammie, it's more like pigs in a blanket...

heh