{"id":36711,"date":"2018-10-18T06:50:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T06:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=36711"},"modified":"2018-10-18T06:50:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T06:50:20","slug":"karens-musings-the-latest-royal-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/karens-musings-the-latest-royal-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"KAREN&#8217;S MUSINGS: THE LATEST ROYAL WEDDING"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>THE LATEST ROYAL WEDDING<\/h1>\n<p>This latest Royal Wedding, of Princess Eugenie and the wonderfully-monikered Jack Brooksbank, was just a week ago, and I\u2019m still kvelling over it! (Doesn\u2019t his name sound like a handsome character in a black-and-white movie? Like someone Clark Gable would have played?)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36701\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-181012123634-41-eugenie-wedding-e1539820080353.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36701\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36701\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-181012123634-41-eugenie-wedding-e1539820080353-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"Just married!\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-181012123634-41-eugenie-wedding-e1539820080353-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/http-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-181012123634-41-eugenie-wedding-e1539820080353.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just married!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I would have given you my tips for <em>watching<\/em> this one in advance, as I did for that previous wedding, but since I was erroneously led to believe not great things about these nuptials, (by the idiotic press,) I did not. And that is most definitely <em>my bad<\/em>!!!<\/p>\n<p>[Note: This was in the Comments section of a British article I read about the wedding, and expresses <em>my<\/em> thoughts to a tee!: \u201cThe press has completely misled us on who Eugenie really is; all I see is a very sweet, gracious, and humble girl, who is very much in love with her lovely husband. I&#8217;m glad she&#8217;s had the opportunity to show us all her real self. I wish the queen would give them the chance to represent her in official roles. A very classy couple indeed.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>I love this couple! I had never noticed Jack <em>at all<\/em> in the seven years that they\u2019ve been together, and I knew nothing of Eugenie except for the public mocking of her and her older sister, Princess Beatrice. I really am ashamed of myself for not digging deeper to begin with.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36702\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pjgdjnbpqzyjmmxiy5xq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36702\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36702\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pjgdjnbpqzyjmmxiy5xq-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"The whole bridal family.  And kids, too, of course.\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pjgdjnbpqzyjmmxiy5xq-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pjgdjnbpqzyjmmxiy5xq.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The whole bridal family. And kids, too, of course.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Actually, the<em> sole<\/em> reason I watched the wedding is that the British media made such a big deal out of which Royal Wedding would outdo the other! [Note: I doubt many other <em>Americans<\/em> even cared about it at all. And, if they <em>did<\/em>, I have a feeling they missed it, anyway, because I was most likely one of the very few on <em>this<\/em> side of the pond who was smart enough to even<em> find<\/em> the sparse television coverage! And I\u2019m also the only one <em>I know<\/em> who was even the slightest bit interested because self-centered LA peeps just don\u2019t care about much outside of their own lives.]<\/p>\n<p>And it should not have been that way. The girls have always been secondary, (or actually, much further down than that,) to Wills and Harry, in the hearts and minds of the Brits. And I should not have bought into that.<\/p>\n<p>So, here are just a few of my quick thoughts on the entire Royal topic:<\/p>\n<p>First of all, during the television coverage of the entire day, the English hosts played an interview that they had recently done with the engaged couple, who turned-out to be adorable. And soooo in love! Mr. X and I went nuts over how cute and charming they are. And they appear to be genuinely good people. We\u2019ve been rooting for their happiness ever since that moment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36706\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rsz_princess-eugenie-12-e1539820272541.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36706\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36706\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rsz_princess-eugenie-12-e1539820272541-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"On their way as a married couple, with a little help from Prince Andrew and Princess Eugenie.  (I believe they were leaving their wedding breakfast here.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rsz_princess-eugenie-12-e1539820272541-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rsz_princess-eugenie-12-e1539820272541-110x96.jpg 110w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rsz_princess-eugenie-12-e1539820272541.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On their way as a married couple, with a little help from Prince Andrew and Princess Eugenie. (I believe they were leaving their wedding breakfast here.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And the wedding itself was beautiful and brilliant. Eugenie looked stunning! Her dress, tiara, and earrings all worked together perfectly, (<em>and<\/em> with her auburn locks,) and were absolutely gorgeous. I adored that she did not wear an unnecessary veil, and had the dress made to show her back scar from her major spine surgery that she had when she was just twelve. What a very thoughtful thing to do to give others in her then-position hope. If a real-life princess can rock her scars, so can we all.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>did<\/em> have some unanswered questions along the way, though. Chief among them is why did Beatrice, who was the Maid of Honor, not stand up at the altar with her little sis, as Jack\u2019s brother, his Best Man, did with <em>him<\/em>? The only answer I can come up with is that she stayed by her mother\u2019s side during the ceremony so that Fergie, who\u2019s been persona non grata with the royals for many years now, would feel more comfortable. And, if that is indeed the case, yet another point for these lovely siblings.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36704\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/skynews-royal-wedding-eugenie_4451118-e1539819375579.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36704\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36704\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/skynews-royal-wedding-eugenie_4451118-e1539819375579-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Jack, Eugenie, Harry, Meghan.  Eugenie's BOUQUET is even better!!!\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/skynews-royal-wedding-eugenie_4451118-e1539819375579-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/skynews-royal-wedding-eugenie_4451118-e1539819375579.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Jack, Eugenie, Harry, Meghan. Eugenie&#8217;s BOUQUET is even better!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not that it was a competition between the two weddings, (this one and the one five months ago of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle,) as the press has been making it out to be, but if so, <em>this<\/em> one won, hands down! It had a much prettier bride, no crazy self-serving bishop, (or whatever that guy was,) and no long drawn-out <em>anything<\/em>. Meghan\u2019s hair looked dirty with her usual pieces hanging down, (which I have never understood her obsession with,) while Eugenie&#8217;s was clean, classy, and elegant. And her make-up was perfection while Markle\u2019s face looked dirty and messy throughout the entire ceremony. And<em> this<\/em> couple interacted with each other more, laughing all the time, while I kept hearing Markle\u2019s inner dialogue as just congratulating herself for snagging a prince! (Okay, that one<em> is<\/em> a large bit of speculation on my part.)\u00a0They had a much better \u201cfirst kiss,&#8221; as well!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36721\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rsz_screen-shot-2018-10-13-at-6-02-24-am-1539424968-e1539819563670.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36721\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36721\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rsz_screen-shot-2018-10-13-at-6-02-24-am-1539424968-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Eugenie's curtsy, on the right.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugenie&#8217;s curtsy, on the right.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And let\u2019s face it\u2014that curtsy to the Queen that Eugenie did to her grandma was a thing of beauty! I\u2019ve never seen one like it before!<\/p>\n<p>The kids in the bridal party were adorbs once again. But weirdly, they kept cracking us up at <em>this<\/em> one, while they did <em>not<\/em> at the previous union.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36699\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5097992-6282771-image-a-27_1539707397608.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36699\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36699\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5097992-6282771-image-a-27_1539707397608-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"The kids loving the newlyweds.  (Princess Charlotte is the giggly girl in the middle.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5097992-6282771-image-a-27_1539707397608-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5097992-6282771-image-a-27_1539707397608-168x137.jpg 168w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/5097992-6282771-image-a-27_1539707397608.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The kids loving the newlyweds. (Princess Charlotte is the giggly girl in the middle.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And then Eugenie and Jack threw exactly the kind of two-day celebration that <em>I<\/em> would love to do if Mr. X and I ever have a wedding. (But truth be told, none of <em>our<\/em> friends<em> deserve<\/em> this fun!!! Just sayin\u2019.) First they had that enchanting wedding itself, followed immediately by a brunch, and a fancy dress reception that night, and then an outdoors fair-and-rides event the day after!!! OMG!<\/p>\n<p>And Eug and Jack\u2019s <em>cake<\/em> beats Harry and Meghan\u2019s by a million zillion! The latter had a lemon cake, (ugh\u2014gag me with a spoon,) which, besides that <em>I<\/em> would have hated it, is not a<em> fun<\/em> wedding dessert, by any stretch of the imagination. It was not nice of them to give their guests such an unspecial \u201cpudding.\u201d [Note: \u201cPudding\u201d is how\u00a0the English refer to\u00a0<em>all<\/em> desserts.] Lemon is the <em>opposite<\/em> of \u201csweet treat.\u201d But Eug and Jack\u2019s wowed their guests with a breathtaking rich cake of chocolate and red velvet, a combo made in heaven. And it was decorated in autumnal foliage, which was their color scheme for the whole shebang. Brilliant!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36716\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-17-at-122242-PM-e1539819780640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36716\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36716\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-17-at-122242-PM-e1539819780640-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"The cake.  Notice their initials along the bottom.\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-17-at-122242-PM-e1539819780640-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-17-at-122242-PM-e1539819780640.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cake. Notice their initials along the bottom.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now I <em>really<\/em> wish that I had accepted one of the several TV jobs I\u2019ve been offered in London over the years, so Eug and I could have become besties!!! I would have fit right in with <em>all<\/em> of it!<\/p>\n<p>So much has happened in the Royal Family this past week, not<em> just<\/em> the wedding! There have been so many developments, some happy, some annoying. (To <em>me<\/em>, anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>Part of that news is that Harry and his wife are expecting a child, (which I\u2019m sure <em>all<\/em> observant females could tell the moment they laid eyes on her weirdly-buttoned coat that day.) So, good for them. But it was<em> totally<\/em> rude of Meghan to announce her pregnancy&#8230;at Eugenie\u2019s wedding!!! Talk about trying to steal someone\u2019s thunder. Yeesh.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36717\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hbz-james-matthews-pippa-middleton-1539345749-e1539819932257.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36717\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36717\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hbz-james-matthews-pippa-middleton-1539345749-e1539819932257-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pippa and her husband walking into the wedding just three days before she had the baby!!! Looks like the easiest, neatest pregnancy ever!\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hbz-james-matthews-pippa-middleton-1539345749-e1539819932257-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hbz-james-matthews-pippa-middleton-1539345749-e1539819932257.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pippa and her husband walking into the wedding just three days before she had the baby!!! Looks like the easiest, neatest pregnancy ever!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But creepy Meghan got one-upped herself right away by Pippa Middleton, (Kate\u2019s sister,) having her baby on <em>Monday<\/em>, right after the other\u2019s pregnancy news went world wide. I could not have been happier with<em> that<\/em> timing!<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of timing, how easy-going is Pippa\u2019s?! She didn\u2019t even show until very recently, looked comfortably and cutely pregnant at the wedding last Friday, went into the hospital on Monday, and had her baby&#8230;just three hours later!!! You go, girl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, there you have it\u2014the Royals week in review. With a twist of Karen, of course.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE LATEST ROYAL WEDDING This latest Royal Wedding, of Princess Eugenie and the wonderfully-monikered Jack Brooksbank, was just a week ago, and I\u2019m still kvelling over it! (Doesn\u2019t his name sound like a handsome character in a black-and-white movie? Like someone Clark Gable would have played?) I would have given you my tips for watching<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/karens-musings-the-latest-royal-wedding\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-karens-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36711"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36740,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36711\/revisions\/36740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}