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Kate puts on brave face amid tacky spectacle
New York Post ^ | April 30, 2011 | Andrea Peyser

Posted on 04/30/2011 12:51:30 PM PDT by this is my country

Off with their hats! It was bigger than the Super Bowl and as tacky as a legion of Elvis impersonators. Most of all, it was disturbingly white. Yesterday's little wedding of William and Kate, a worldwide showcase of dreadful hats, fad diets and an unusually sour, lemon-yellow-clad queen, was designed to prove to the common man that the royals, finally, were down with the people. But from the moment a triumphant Kate tiptoed with her dad onto the red carpet -- yes, she walked an actual red carpet to and from the altar -- I saw not a potential queen. Kate bore the look of a lithe human sacrifice. Or was she ready to faint from her starvation diet? Her mouth smiled. But in her eyes -- terror. Who can blame her? Kate waited eight years for this moment, outlasting an endless parade of bimbos and stunning babes, most of them blond, at least five of them wedding guests (go figure, Brits), to win the hand of the badly balding heir to the throne. "You look beautiful!" William said, sounding a trifle too surprised, as she sailed into his orbit. These had to be the second-most dorky words ever to emerge from the mouth of a prince, after Wills' dad's unfortunate musings on becoming Camilla's feminine hygiene product. Kate did her best to paint on a smile, as the claustrophobically reserved royal mob made asses of themselves, craning their necks to give Kate the once-over, like a hunk of meat. It was showtime! Perhaps it was a bad omen. Or a sign of water retention. But when it came time to be Mr. and Mrs. Or Duke and Duchess. Or whatever the heck this pair will call each other in the

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: andreapeyser; kate; prince; wedding; william
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To: BulletBobCo

That possibility definitely crossed my mind.


181 posted on 04/30/2011 4:52:03 PM PDT by wayoverthehill
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To: Notwithstanding

Nice that someone can cast the first stone. By the way, what are YOUR sins?


182 posted on 04/30/2011 5:31:37 PM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a U.S. Marine.)
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To: buccaneer81

ok, that is good. But the royalty can certainly raise a stink over failed social policy! If they had some real conservative courage...no?


183 posted on 04/30/2011 6:04:29 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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To: nopardons

yes, drawing more money to pay for garbage government...great idea there!


184 posted on 04/30/2011 6:06:54 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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To: fabian
Look, every nation raises money in various different ways. You can't blame the Queen, nor members of the royal family, for what the PM and government does.

Since you have no idea how that nation is ruled and governed, nor who is in charge, you shouldn't talk about it. And FYI..............the Queen can't speak out nor make suggestions.

185 posted on 04/30/2011 6:29:17 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: fabian

The royals stay out of governing, for good reason. They let their charities do their talking.


186 posted on 04/30/2011 6:45:32 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: fabian
yes, drawing more money to pay for garbage government...great idea there!

You need to read up on how economies and governments work. Your income taxes pay for things both good and bad. So does the tourism money attracted by the royal family.

187 posted on 04/30/2011 6:49:38 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: nopardons

Funny thing caught my eye in Peyser’s bio... she’s married to Mark Phillips. If I’m not mistaken that’s the name of Princess Ann’s first husband (or current for all I know, tho I think she, too, has been divorced).

It’s pretty bad when you write a column and more posts, as here, attack your cattiness than the ‘tacky spectacle.’ I may be the only person on earth who thought the hats were FUN! Over the top, yes, but fun nonetheless. Even Beatrix’s.
(and that served its purpose ... I’ve seen more pix of her and that hat than of Kate!)


188 posted on 04/30/2011 7:02:25 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA
LOL..........now that's funny; except that that's a different Mark Phillips, I'm sure.

Princess Anne is divorced from Mark Phillips and is now married to Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurenece.

I loved some of the hats, but hated the ridiculous/what were they thinking ones. But then, each to his/her own.

189 posted on 04/30/2011 7:32:31 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: this is my country

1. All whites are evil, except for whites like the writer, who hate themselves and their own race and show how much better they are by pointing out the evil of other whites.

2. Any gathering of mostly whites is automatically evil.

3. Any gathering of mostly nonwhites is wonderful, vibrant diversity.

Really, how long before just being white is against the law? Why don’t they just load us onto the boxcars now and get it over with?


190 posted on 04/30/2011 8:00:33 PM PDT by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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To: nopardons

Sure I do know how governments work and England has had much too much of it! And royalty certainly can speak out against socialist policies! God gave them a tongue and no man can take that away...unless they have been cowarded into it. work for charities is a good thing, I am not knocking that obviously!


191 posted on 04/30/2011 8:16:29 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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To: fabian
The Queen has NO say in any matters and the crown has NEVER talked out against any governmental polices, in well over a hundred years, during which time span, they had a bit of say in things. Ergo, you have NO idea, none whatsoever, in how THAT government works.

I'm not telling you to shut up....just that it would behoove you to refrain from posting on matters you neither know anything about, nor understand, which would stop making yourself a poster worthy of correcting and/or derision.

192 posted on 04/30/2011 8:27:48 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

you seem to miss my point...of course the royalty has no say in policy...but they can still be bold and speak out for heaven sakes! Do you know how much wealth has been confiscated by excessive government in England? Good lord! Pure theft, just like our income tax and social policy...very similar. And what about legalized child killing in England? Does royalty speak out boldly against that? Just wondering...


193 posted on 04/30/2011 8:37:31 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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To: fabian
They aren't really allowed to "speak out" as you say. Do you know what kinds of hell Prince Charles got for talking about how ugly modern architecture is ( which he was correct about ), several decades ago?

Put simply, so that perhaps you will finally "get it"........

THE QUEEN IS A SYMBOL, A FIGUREHEAD AND THE OTHER ROYALS ARE LESS THAN THAT. THEIR "JOB" IS TO OPEN STUFF ( THE QUEEN OPENS THE PARLIAMENT SEASON ), LAUNCH NEW SHIPS, WORK ON MANY DIFFERENT CHARITIES, AND THAT'S IT.

The royals pay income taxes now, so of course they all know how much that costs everyone.

You really and truly need to just drop this, NOW, because you have become ridiculous, in the extreme.

194 posted on 04/30/2011 8:51:30 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I don’t need to drop jack! Until I see fit, thank you very much. We are in America here and thank God not England where the royalty has not the courage to speak out on terrible evils of the day! At least it sounds that way. Shame on them! Okay, now I am done.


195 posted on 04/30/2011 9:27:38 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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To: nopardons

The reports I heard on tV and in press was that the security was paid for by the taxpayer but all the other costs of the wedding were paid for by both the queen and Middleton families.


196 posted on 04/30/2011 9:32:30 PM PDT by celtic gal
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To: this is my country

So now we see that the White House is not enough for King and Queen 0bama and now they want Buck House too..gads what grifters.LOL


197 posted on 04/30/2011 9:34:55 PM PDT by celtic gal
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To: fabian
Nope, shame on YOU; shame on you for being an ignorant person, who posts thoughtless and factless garbage about people and situations which you neither comprehend or care to. My suggestion was a way for you to "save face", which you didn't understand either.

But I guess making an absurd fool of yourself doesn't bother you one whit.

198 posted on 04/30/2011 9:35:49 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: celtic gal

I’ve seen and heard that, as well as some reporting that the Queen was paying for some of the security. It’s been a mixed bag, with some things turning out to be false, or just rumors. So who knows....re the security stuff?


199 posted on 04/30/2011 9:42:09 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

You betcha! I don’t save face, come on now...that is wimpy! I wish strength and courage to the so called royalty because evil is on a massive assault in this world and we need to be on the attack too! With love and honesty..and it would be helpful if the so called royalty would do that!


200 posted on 04/30/2011 9:58:51 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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