Wedding today!

The Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall England rugby player have been married

in a wonderful ceremony in Scotland today.The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were at the wedding in Canongate Kirk It has been Scotland's first royal wedding in almost 20 years. Prince Charles and Camilla, Prince William and Catherine, and Prince Harry were at the ceremony and also at the reception at Holyroodhouse.The bride's dress was designed by Stewart Parvin, she wore a veil, tiara and Jimmy Choo shoes.

Beautiful, elegant couple. We like that fact that this was not a big grand national wedding, but family event, even though very much in the public gaze.

The media is calling this the "Other" Royal Wedding?

So, we have another Royal Wedding on the horizon,Zara will be marrying Mike Tindall this weekend, tomorrow actually, she is the granddaughter of the Queen,who must be so very proud, to have had another wonderful Royal Wedding in the same year.Although it must be said, Zara has a much more casual and down to Earth approach than Kate and Wills of course.They arrived for the rehearsal at the Royal Mile Church in Scotland, and even the bride who originally had booked the dayfor her own wedding, was kind enough to step aside, and let the Royal Wedding proceed in her place.

 

 

Torch lighting a year away

Next year will be Her Majesty the Queen's Royal Diamond Jubilee,

the Olympics will come to London, (Only a year away!), and William and Kate

are favoured to light the Olympic Torch. The Olympics coming to London will create

thousands of new jobs, the main concourse at the Olympic Stadium will see about

400,000 people a day attending the events. The main venues are pretty much complete

with the work now being to install the temporary building installations.

On top of this, Boris Johnson has invited 10,000 people to be part of the opening ceremony,

"and you don't have to be able to act!".

41 Million

The Royal Wedding brought an extra 41 million pounds of business in.

Although in other ways, some economists have mentioned that the extra days

off in April for the wedding of Wills and Kate, affected productivity and spending.

Can't win 'em all we guess.

News of the World debacle

So, the News of the World plot thickens with the death of one of

the first people to report the problems. Two met officers resign.

Accusations of trips to health spas and a job arranged for a daughter.

Apparently the second policeman to resign yesterday passed on further investigation

of bags containing 4000 names, including a television presenter and her husband.

The ripples from this situation will likely grow and grow.

Hurt and shame

Ruper Murdoch has given a hand on heart apology,

two executives have resigned. His media empire has taken a huge hit.

It seems that the underlying reality of the way things are actually done, shocks people.

When in fact, it has been the norm for a long time.

Otherwise, the news would be bland, and uninteresting, instead of the hghly exciting world

of stars and celebs, and who they are sleeping with, "drug fueled sex romps!" with footballers etc.

"Tory MP caught outside nightclub with actress". "New and latest scandal!".

But they definitely crossed the line with the Milly Dowler family, the great thing about the states

is that they sue for cash, whereas in the UK, they seek "an apology".

They talk about hurt and shame, but are unable to put a price on where it really hurts.

Everything blowws over, and on they go. 

Paris Patisseries

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Here is a great site we have been looking at recently, it is written by a visitor to Paris,

the photos are great quality, the writing and descriptions are enjoyable, and the general

sense of enjoyment makes it a great daily read.

Kate and Wills

Kate and Wills are having a gently introduction to public life.

A bit overshadowed by the News of the World controversy in the UK this week.

There was a visit scheduled to a town damaged by fire in Canada, the intent to present

them with cowboy hats.

 

~Strangely enought, there was some anti royal feeling in Quebec, where the couple

received a positive welcome from the Mayor of the city.

 

Some anti-monarchists had taken to the streets to protest the visit.

Ah well, all comes with the territory.