Arthur_Parker
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11765422Prince William is to marry long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton next year, Clarence House has said.
William, second in line to the throne, will marry in London next spring or summer and live in north Wales, where he is serving with the RAF.
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Prime Minister David Cameron said the engagement marked "a great day for our country" and wished the couple a long and happy life together.
He said he had received the news in a call from Buckingham Palace during a cabinet meeting, and it was greeted with "a great cheer" and "banging of the table" from fellow ministers.
He had slept overnight on the Mall ahead of Diana and Charles' wedding, he added.
Leader of the Labour party Ed Miliband said "the whole country will be wishing them every happiness".
Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond said William and Kate's romance was "a match made in St Andrews" and everyone in Scotland would join him in wishing them well. Grats, but God we are going to have months of this and then the entire country will shut down for a week when it happens. Daily Mail is already on the case with bikini pics. Is this the new People's Princess? How confident Kate Middleton compares to 'Shy Di'
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I love that article. It stops just shy of suggesting that Kate may too meet her end smeared all over the walls of a tunnel in France with a wogs cock in her mouth.  |
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Yeah, I tuned into BBC World News, saw that, and immediately changed the channel. The Beeb usually is a good place to get honest journalism that actually pays attention to the rest of the world when Americans aren't directly involved, but it's going to be all Royal Wedding crap from now until a week after the event.
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I'm glad that in the US our royals are retarded rich kids and ephemeral celebrities. Just like yours, but we have more of them so they're easier to discard when past the fresh date.
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Sir T
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Oh great. From now on its gonna be "yeah heres some bad news on the economy... BUT HERE'S SOME NEVER BEFORE SEEN PICS OF KATE (no sirname to make you feel you know her) DOING A HANDSTAND WHILE EATING A BANANA!! WOOHOO!!!"
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I'm happy for them, as best I can tell they both seem to be pretty decent people.
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Dear UK journalists, people get married. Quite frequently in fact. I don't care. I went to my cousin's wedding two months ago and the only reason I cared about that was a free bar so unless you're offering a shot of decent whisky with every announcement of this please shut the hell up. Previously the thing I was most looking forward to having to try to skip was when the Olympics happen and now they have to throw another massive non-story in my face.
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Lantyssa
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*SQUEE* She's lovely.
Gods, I'm turning into my mom.
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Daily Mail is already on the case with bikini pics.
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Prince Charles, presumably channelling Prince Philip... ...obviously thrilled...they've been practising long enough... Odds are good we'll get an extra bank holiday out of this. |
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And he revealed he asked Kate's father for her hand in marriage after he asked her.
"I thought, if I ask Kate first then I'm the motherfucking prince of Wales and heir to the throne of 16 states; he can't really say no," he said. |
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*SQUEE* She's lovely.
Gods, I'm turning into my mom.
The 2nd article was quite amusing in the first comment I saw said "She's so plain and uncharismatic. Not at all like Diana" Whut? Diana always struck me as a compassionate but plain woman who'd blend into the wallpaper if she didn't have folks buying her clothes for her. The frumpy Diana in the B&W pic is the one I always saw. /shrug. Holy crap, why do I care. Anywho, poor Willie doesn't have dad's hair but at least he got a stalker * bride with personality. *Prior reports implying she'd been following him since before they met have been rehashed in the last few hours. I know too much about this because of them. |
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I don't think stalking him would be rated as low as one might think. Seems like British women have all been salivating over him since he was 16, seems like par for the course.
Of course, what do you expect? He doesn't look much of anything like the gargoyle side of his family. And he will be King if he survives that long.
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William had plastic surgery when he was a child to pin back his ears, so he would not look like a cup with 2 handles.
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Why do I know that?
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I'd like to know why William looks 40 now with that hair line suddenly going out like the tide. Seriously, I looked at those pics and he looks 20 years older than the last time he was in the news. Of course I am a Henry fan anyway...as much as an American can be that is.
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The 2nd article was quite amusing in the first comment I saw said "She's so plain and uncharismatic. Not at all like Diana" Whut? Diana always struck me as a compassionate but plain woman who'd blend into the wallpaper if she didn't have folks buying her clothes for her. The frumpy Diana in the B&W pic is the one I always saw. /shrug.
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Plus you have to take her hair in the context of the 80s.
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The Beeb usually is a good place to get honest journalism
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Well the engagement didn't manage to qualify as news with the editors at the Socialist Worker  |
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Arthur_Parker
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Yup just checked, that's probably the only "media" not covering the story. Did find this from 2002 on the Jubilee though. THE REST of the queen's family are just as parasitical and nearly as rich as her.
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She owns seabed
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This includes 120,000 hectares of agricultural land and the entire seabed around Britain. I doubt that causing me to think that The Queen owning the seabed around Britain is pretty cool was the main intention of the article though. |
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Well now I know who to talk when it comes time to build my underwater colony off the coast of Britain.
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Well now I know who to talk when it comes time to build my underwater colony off the coast of Britain.
That'll be London in a few years time after the sea levels rise. |
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She's a legit hottie.
And that's the extent to which I care about this subject. Not that there needs to be more than that.
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I'm old enough to remember the last Royal Wedding, and I think some of the youngsters here will underestimate just how ridiculously big a deal will be made of this event.
And she's hot.
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MahrinSkel
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I'm also old enough to remember it, which is why I said that from now until a week after, BBC (and all other British media, but that's the only one I ever follow) is going to be the Royal Wedding Channel(s).
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Seems harmless enough, and it's only once every generation or so.
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It'll be amusing (to me at least) to see how much of a problem 'Security' is around a royal wedding in these days of panic security theater.
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I'm also old enough to remember it, which is why I said that from now until a week after, BBC (and all other British media, but that's the only one I ever follow) is going to be the Royal Wedding Channel(s).
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I wager the Irish Economy wishes it was doing better business...
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This "news" (and this thread) already start to irritate me.
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Plus you have to take her hair in the context of the 80s.
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I'm old enough to remember the last Royal Wedding, and I think some of the youngsters here will underestimate just how ridiculously big a deal will be made of this event.
And she's hot.
I clearly remember watching the wedding on TV with my entire family and my Grandmother, other relatives got the photo book of the wedding.... and we lived in California. I can't even begin to imagine the hype that will go on across the pond. That said, at this point in my life, I have a hard time thinking the words "royal wedding" without smirking at the idea of royalty. |
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Plus you have to take her hair in the context of the 80s.
Fashions of the 80s have not aged well. At least women trim the hedges these days. |
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