Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 I'm not asking this question to stir up trouble or anything. I'm just curious what folks in the Saloon think about the upcoming nuptials of Prince William and his sweetheart, Kate Middleton. I'm not a huge fan of monarchies and such, but I've met enough folks from England that I understand their love for the royal family and the role that they play within British society. I do like Harry and William a whole lot more than either of their parents. As much as I'm grateful to not be one of their subjects, I do wish William and Kate a happy marriage. The world could use a little more "happily ever after". William and Kate's official web site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Logan #12252 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Fine lookin couple, sorry Big O cant go to the weddin, hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spanish Bit Bobb Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Congrats! an all the best to em. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 May God grant them prosperous and peaceful lives, health, salvation, and success in all good works, and preserve and protect them for many years. Gonna be a tough life, living under the magnifying glass as they will. I'm more curious about his grandmother and his father. Elizabeth is 84 now, and seems to be going strong. Charles is 62, will likely be 72 or older when he takes the throne. Will likely be a short reign. Will William be king before he is 50? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Charlie, I wish them the very same good wishes that I would offer to any two young people starting their lives together. I personally think that because of their status in society, that they will have a lot of challenges but then who doesn't when they enter into the bond of marriage. Other than that, it is not a lot of my business. Good luck William and Kate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 There are as many people in the UK who couldn't give a rat's patoot about the Royal Family as there are who love them. Most, including my relatives in the UK, simply don't care. I would wish the young couple happiness the same as anyone. But I don't intend to watch the ceremony. They may face some challenges but probably less than a single income couple in West Virginia I'd wager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Gag me... Never understood why any society would support such goings on at public expense. To each their own... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 I don't really have any thoughts. Like any couple, I hope them happiness and long life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bama Red Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 As seems to be the general opinion, I wish them luck and lots of it, just as I would any other couple starting out nowadays. My bride will probably glue her eyeballs to the TV for the duration, once the wedding hoopla begins - just means more uninterrupted reloading time for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 The best reason for the monarchy that I can come up with is that they allow a stability at the head of the govt. even though they have no actual power. All of the time consuming ceremonial stuff is handled by them leaving the elected officials to attempt to run the govt. I wish we had a king. Any thing is better than what we have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother King, SASS #69031 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Like others I can only wish them the best of fortune. It's always been such a curious thing to me that folks like Princess Diana who had looks, fame, wealth, station; anything and everything at her beck and call, could live such a tragic life. In the end the one thing she wanted most was denied her until, finding it finally in the end, the status of her own celebrity took it all. How can anyone maintain such a life of misery in a sea of outward abundance? Baffles me whenever I hear of royalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Up the Rebels!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 The whole idea that someone is better than someone else by benefit of their birth is what I don't understand or go along with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burly Bear Fred Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 WHO???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foul Mouth Frank Shutz Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 The whole idea that someone is better than someone else by benefit of their birth is what I don't understand or go along with. Having been born an American I can see where it might be true. On the other hand, those who choose to become Americans probably have an edge when it comes to appreciating what we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Balz, SASS#46599 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Don't give a rats a$$, wish them well just like anyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Same answer I have for anything that happens to other folks I don't know: Who cares? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G. I. Tarpicker, SASS #998 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Yawn -- GIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Hacker, #60477 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 I just can't think of anything that is as irrelevant to my life(or the world in general) as what British royalty is doing. The pre-occupation of our press with this wedding is slightly less justified than their continual reporting of Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohann or Britney Spears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tascosa, SASS# 24838 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 I wish them well, as I would any couple getting married. One good thing is they don't have too many community organizers in their country. Tascosa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Peludo, SASS #3763L Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Ehhhh, WGARA!! Don't wish 'em any bad, only good, but beyond that, .......... Can't figure why all the femanimals in my fambly are so ga-ga about it all. Must be a fairy tale thing or somethin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 I just can't think of anything that is as irrelevant to my life(or the world in general) as what British royalty is doing. The pre-occupation of our press with this wedding is slightly less justified than their continual reporting of Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohann or Britney Spears. Personally, I prefer reporting on the royals to having the endless reportage on the sniveling, foul mouthed, drugged up, self centered glitterati like Sheen, Lohann and Spears. At least William has some sense of duty to country. Plus there is often spiffy ceremony and military drill to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slackwater Jack, SASS #42272 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Charlie, I wish them the very same good wishes that I would offer to any two young people starting their lives together. I personally think that because of their status in society, that they will have a lot of challenges but then who doesn't when they enter into the bond of marriage. Other than that, it is not a lot of my business. Good luck William and Kate. Badger, ya took the words right outta my mouth. I would only add that I fervently HOPE that William will treat Kate with more dignity and respect than his father showed his mother. In my opinion, and this is only my opinion, Charles should never have married a girl that he clearly was never in love with... to me that just showed how little he cared for Diana. JMHO. Slackwater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deja Vous Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Badger, ya took the words right outta my mouth. I would only add that I fervently HOPE that William will treat Kate with more dignity and respect than his father showed his mother. In my opinion, and this is only my opinion, Charles should never have married a girl that he clearly was never in love with... to me that just showed how little he cared for Diana. JMHO. Slackwater Such a nice thing to say, and so true. Why do men marry women they don't want? Was it a family made him do it issue or what? Why hurt someone? I dont' get it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 The best reason for the monarchy that I can come up with is that they allow a stability at the head of the govt. even though they have no actual power. All of the time consuming ceremonial stuff is handled by them leaving the elected officials to attempt to run the govt. I wish we had a king. Any thing is better than what we have. I would rather have Margaret Thatcher than a king. Why can't America produce and elect a leader of that excellence? I am grateful my wife and I learned how to be married anonymously. Of course, a few million dollars worth of crown jewels may have made the transition from bachelorhood to being married less stressful. Good luck to them in any case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deja Vous Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 I would rather have Margaret Thatcher than a king. Why can't America produce and elect a leader of that excellence? I am grateful my wife and I learned how to be married anonymously. Of course, a few million dollars worth of crown jewels may have made the transition from bachelorhood to being married less stressful. Good luck to them in any case. Well, JBars since I have met you at the shoots.. I know you are just good people.. That could be the difference.. nothing is worse than a cheater, that one really hurts.. I am sure Diana suffered from a broken heart for the rest of her short days. You never get over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slackwater Jack, SASS #42272 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Such a nice thing to say, and so true. Why do men marry women they don't want? Was it a family made him do it issue or what? Why hurt someone? I dont' get it... Deja, thank you, and I don't have an answer to that question, doubt that any man really knows why. I don't remember if Charles' family forced him into it, or what, I just remember thinking as I watched over the years, that he really showed an almost complete disdain for Diana, save for the fact that she bore him two heirs... Slackwater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deja Vous Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Deja, thank you, and I don't have an answer to that question, doubt that any man really knows why. I don't remember if Charles' family forced him into it, or what, I just remember thinking as I watched over the years, that he really showed an almost complete disdain for Diana, save for the fact that she bore him two heirs... Slackwater WEll, you know to have two heirs, put in a polite way, you have to love someone right? It just seems like he must have loved her once.. and what went so wrong? And why can't stuff be fixed I wonder anymore? Is it the money, the drugs, or what.... I am lost over what enters peoples minds.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Here Jerry Seinfeld’s take on the Royals.’You know, it’s a dress-up. It’s a classic English thing of let’s play dress-up. Let’s pretend that these are special people. OK, we’ll all pretend that – that’s what theatre is,’ he continued. ‘That’s why the British have the greatest theatre in the world. They love to dress up and they love to play pretend. He made these comments in an interview on Daybreak while promoting his stand-up show at the O2 on June 3. He continued “that’s what the Royal Family is – it’s a huge game of pretend. These aren’t special people – it’s fake outfits, fake phoney hats and gowns.’ Seinfeld added: ‘It’s fantastic. We don’t have anything like that.’ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Shux.... wonderin' if anyone's plannin' a royal chivaree...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Well, you know to have two heirs, put in a polite way, you have to love someone right? It just seems like he must have loved her once.. and what went so wrong? And why can't stuff be fixed I wonder anymore? Is it the money, the drugs, or what.... I am lost over what enters peoples minds.. Ready for some gossip? When Charles was having an affair with Camilla, Diana by her own admission during a TV interview (which I saw) admitted that she had an affair with her riding instructor, who was a British army major. X number of months later Harry was born and, was the spitting image of the major, red hair and all. This was picked up by the British press but it was quickly quashed. Some suspect a Royal publication ban. When you look at it, harry doesn't look like anyone in the Royal Family however, he has a striking resemblance to the Major to which she had a publicly admitted affair. Only the Shadow knows..... On another note... The Royal Wedding has about as much interest in Canada as it does in the U.S. Yawn! The only connection we have to the Queen really, is that she is our head of state and her portrait is on our $20 bill but no longer on any of our postage stamps. The monarchy is surreptitiously being faded out over time however, the Prime Minister and his wife were invited to the wedding but he can't go as it is just a couple of days before our federal election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 The royals got more skeletons in their closet than a Halloween warehouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 :lol: :lol: That is a lot of skeletons, Bob. Buffalo Creek, I can't go either. Bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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