I didn't realise she was so old. She's the same age Harry's mother was when she died.Plain so we could focus on that beautiful smile(I personally didn't like the tiara thingy. It reminded me of rolled up tin foil.)
I concur Harry's expression was priceless.
Prince Henry's Wedding
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Ahem, I am 36 and I feel like a duchess. Awesome and glowing. (In corn syrup brownie dust)
I out performed 20 year olds at my - make money fast so I can move in 60 days and not put it all on a credit card, job.*Survivor tv host voice* There were 10. Only 4 hires remain. Who will become the sole provider?
36 is not old.
37 is old.
Damn right, megan and I have another year!
Flash back confession: when I was 13, I thought J/c were two old people at 39-40. I was temporarily repulsed by Resolutions because it was like watching two parents act silly in love...yuck. hahaha. Ahhhhh, perception.
Now I am on the other side of the fence. Just yesterday, I explained to two 20 year old co-workers they will understand in their 30s why they weren't taken seriously at 19. You will start calling them kids and think ohhh. Because you will wise up so much in the next 15 yrs. All the dumb crap you do or see others do. Your brain matures and you can foresee consequences of your actions. So you're on another level and start seeing your former age group as kids, you watch. (They both chuckle but you see them reflecting on it)
But back to topic, yes we are Diana's age from that moment in time she married. I still look at Janeway through the eyes of my childhood sometimes. It is hard for me to realize I am approaching the age that Kate was then. Same feeling about Jeff Foxworthy, Roseanne Barr, any 30 something from the 90s I think, crap that's me already!
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Harry is 33. So what?
It's been almost two decades since I was 36.
Back in the '90s I belonged to an on-campus SF club at the local college. One of the students in the group started whining one day about her 25th birthday coming up. Another chimed in, saying she wasn't looking forward to turning 30.
My friend and I, who were taking courses there with adult student status, just looked at each other and burst out laughing. I was past 30 at that point and my friend was past 50.
We informed them that turning 25, and even 30 is not fatal (unless you're living in the Logan's Run universe).
Diana was really too young to have married Charles. She didn't have a lot of life experience, and even then he preferred Camilla. But that all-so-important business of having to marry someone "without a past" who could produce the "heir and a spare" - the same royal obsession that prompted Henry VIII to marry 6 times because he wanted that heir and a spare - pretty much forced him to take the first available woman who came along who fit all the requirements, and with whom he could get along (at least at first).
So in Meghan's case, she's had a lot more life experience than Diana did. She's used to being in the spotlight, used to paparazzi, and as an actress she's equipped to act interested at whatever royal functions she's required to attend, even if she's bored out of her mind.
With Diana, if she was bored, it was obvious. She hadn't had enough training to keep her inner state of mind from showing on her face or with her body language.
So 36 is older, but it's not old. And she's young enough to have a kid, maybe two. Since Harry's a lot farther down the line of succession than he was a decade ago, it hardly matters now if he has kids or not.
There was an American preacher who rambled on for nearly 15 minutes, and I wasn't wild about the screeching at the beginning - oops, I mean the soprano whose voice hurt my ears - but there was a very good cellist later.
The dress was nice, they got the vows said, some of the Royals had a "wtf?" look on their faces during the aforementioned American preacher's repetitious ramblings about Martin Luther King Jr., and Oprah Winfrey wore a really hideous hat and sunglasses.
It was... a mix of British aristocracy and American gospel church. Parts of it worked. Parts of it made me mute the TV. The kids were cute.
And apparently there was an empty chair to signify that if Diana was still alive, that's where she would have sat.
My mother disliked Camilla's hat. She called it cart wheel. It was a pink cart wheel.......
No, that's incorrect. The empty seat was directly in front of the Queen. You don't EVER block the view of the Queen. See HERE. TIME magazine explained it very clearly. Harry honored his mother by asking his aunt, Diana's sister, Lady Jane Fellowes to read a poem at the ceremony and the bride wore Princess Diana’s aquamarine ring to the reception.
The best part of that was showing Zora Tyndel in shock!
And the custom is an empty seat for the previous Monarch, I believe. (There were 2, one for Diana)
It looks like somebody took a dozen boxes of Swiffer dusters, dyed them pink, and glued them together in the shape of a daisy or a sunflower.
Damn, that's ugly.
I sit corrected. I had no idea where the empty seat was.
He's 34 years old, heading for middle age, just like his wife. She does not have much time to make the heir and the spare, at least they can afford I.V.F.
The empty seat was not to block the Queen's view, nothing to do with the late Princess Diana. BTW 13 mins of a black minister preaching is nothing, you definitely ain't been to a black church
The best pic, IMHO, was Zora Tyndell, 13th in the Line, watching an American Preacher at work.
And as you said, @Nyotarules, they aint seen Nuttin'!
And as you said, @Nyotarules, they aint seen Nuttin'!
I did consider it strange that Meghan had noone from her mother's side of the family at the wedding, not even her mother's best friend to keep her company?
P.S Hope Harry knows all that straight hair turns into a curly afro when its wet! His kids might inherit it!
P.S Hope Harry knows all that straight hair turns into a curly afro when its wet! His kids might inherit it!
Maybe that's why he married her...Kinky stuff in Africa...I did consider it strange that Meghan had noone from her mother's side of the family at the wedding, not even her mother's best friend to keep her company?
P.S Hope Harry knows all that straight hair turns into a curly afro when its wet! His kids might inherit it!
No one is more kinky than the English, plus his German roots make him kinkierMaybe that's why he married her...Kinky stuff in Africa...
