Posted on 05/20/2018 8:39:44 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Well, today was the big day for Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, so it seems appropriate to offer a few Royal romances as our Saturday movie date. The most directly relevant movie, Royal Wedding, made in 1947, was set in London against the background of Prince Harry's grandparents' nuptials and starred Fred Astaire and an actress whose dad was an actual guest at the actual real-life wedding - Sarah Churchill, daughter of Winston. But I'll say a few words about that tomorrow night in our Song of the Week department, and today cast our net a little further afield in search of celluloid romances between royals and commoners:
To be honest, when a Prince of the Blood Royal marries in the presence of Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney a half-black American actress who's dated a porn star and divorced her Jewish husband by mailing back the wedding ring and has a violent alcoholic brother who's held a gun to his girlfriend's head and sent his soon-to-be brother-in-law an open letter warning that this will be "the biggest mistake in royal wedding history"... to be honest, it makes even the racier royal romances of yesteryear seem a little tame. But let's do our best and go as far afield as the Hungarian box-office smash of 1941, Bob herceg - or, in English, Prince Bob. We're used to Mitteleuropean operettas featuring Mitteleuropean nobility: Princess Helene of Flausenthurn in Oscar Straus' Waltz Dream; Kálmán's Czardas Princess; Leo Fall's Dollar Princess (no relation to the Czardas Princess). It's easy to get this crowd mixed up: in the Népszinház-Vigopera production of A Nagymama, the part of Countess Szeremy was played by Baroness Ödön Splenyi ... Oh, well, Ruritania is in the eye of the beholders...
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
My only comment that adds to the Steyn “declaration”. I only got to see one (1) photo of Oprah Winfrey, and now I know why........Oprah’s a bit on the heavy side.....you know, she’s become a “PASTA” Queen. Ole Oprah for sure, ain’t POTUS material. Twas, Hilarious!!!
Wow!
Steyn is an extremely good writer. Kind of a combination of Tom Wolfe and James Thurber.
OK, to be honest, I can’t make heads or tails of this column.
LOL! Some say that Meghan Markle is Prince Harry’s revenge to the Royal Family over how they treated his mom.
It’s not one of Steyn’s best, but some of his best hilarity is in it: e.g. “Queen Victoria’s Highland fling”
That explains why she was walking funny yesterday -— too girdled up. Doesn’t she advertise a weight loss regimen?
Yes, very apt description; And they all gaze upwards at Evelyn Waugh.
Too bad, it’s wonderful.
Weird.
The calls and texts stopped yesterday.
She was like a telemarketer and some days my phone was unusable
Good luck Harry
Heres the very liberal Markle drooling over Hillary Clinton ang
Gloria Allred. Her and lefty Harry should get along well with the
Hollywood crowd, Both love to bash President Trump.
a black guy at work was ooogling over a magazine front cover photo of oprah the other day, thin waist tight everything.
I said yea either photo-shopped or they stuck her head on the body of a supermodel.
He came it today after watching the wedding and told me that i was right...
Poor Oprah was let down by her much-touted designer. The pink is terrible, the color of a dress for a little girl. That soft color also visually gives illusion of more weight. Peach in a darker tone would retain the feminine, springlike aspect. The dainty lace trim is too youthful for her, and in tiers also draws attention to the body. The neckline should have had more emphasis to draw the eye up to her face. This dress is wrong for her in every way, sadly.
The media and leftist snowflakes couldnt stop gushing over how stylish and stunning Oprah looked.
She was stuffed into that too small outfit like a sausage. I kept expecting her pink outfit to explode at any moment. If I were Stella McCartney I would have been mortified.
Amal Clooney resembled a school bus in her loud yellow costume with the ugly hat. George looked old and decrepit.
I was watching because I wanted to see the ridiculous hats but, after the female anchor started having orgasms over the Clooneys, I was forced to turn the TV off and go to sleep.
The entire farce was an SJW clown show.
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