‘Excitement’ about the royal birth

‘Excitement’ about the royal birth
I keep hearing that the world is agog, waiting for the birth of the royal baby. But where are these people? Who’s agog? I haven’t seen anyone who appears to be even remotely interested in the royal baby.

In fact, everywhere I go, no one has even mentioned the royal baby. People seem to be going about their lives, minding their own business, same as ever.

Not that this gulf between what the media say about the Royal Family and what’s really happening out there is anything new. When Will and Kate got married, I kept reading how theirs was a fairy tale romance and how all of us commoners were basking vicariously in their glow. Fairy tale romance? No more so than anyone else’s.

What was so fairy tale-like about it? Was Prince William a frog until Kate kissed him? Or did Kate take a bite of a poisoned apple, fall into a deep sleep and awaken only upon being kissed by William? Did William rush around trying a glass slipper he found lying in the road on the feet of thousands of British girls before he discovered that it fit Kate? How did he get so much time off from his job as a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot to try glass slippers on girls’ feet?

Then, it’s not a fairy tale romance. Two people fell in love and got married. Happens all the time.

After that, I began hearing how brides were all running out to have knock-offs of Kate’s wedding dress made for their own weddings. Perhaps my circle is extremely limited, but I didn’t know of any brides behaving like that. I was so not attuned to the details of royal wedding dresses that I planned to attend my own wedding wearing jeans, until my boss averted this major fashion faux pas by declaring in a horrified voice, “You can’t do that!”

After Will and Kate were duly married, there were frequent reports about the outfits Kate wore when she made her public appearances, and how women everywhere were just dying to wear those same outfits. However, I never came across any woman dressed like a British duchess; nor have I heard anyone express aloud a wish to do so. In fact, I would think that those large hats duchesses wear when they are doing duchess-like things, such as attending Wimbledon, would be a significant hazard to one’s fellow passengers on transit.Show your nature beauty with the best formal office dresses for women, which could help women confidence at everywhere.

The media have simply declared that millions of people believe Kate and Will are living a fairy tale romance. The media want us to believe that there are millions of people whose every atom of consciousness is now supposedly focused on such vital questions as: Will Kate breastfeed the baby? What will the baby be named? What will Kate and Will do when the royal baby gets a royal case of colic?

We only got a respite from this manufactured treacle during Kate’s first trimester, when she was hospitalized due to a really nasty bout of morning sickness. The media broke with tradition then and did not tell us that millions of women wanted to be just as nauseated as Kate was.

As for Kate’s maternity clothes, if any pregnant Calgary women plan to preside at a Trooping the Colour ceremony soon, they should note that when Kate did so last month, she “stepped out in an adorable pink Alexander McQueen coat and matching hat,” according to CBS’s ETOnline.

It is only the media who are whipping up this froth out of empty air. And as a member of the media myself, I can only say with my best royal British accent: “Cor blimey, mates, I feel sorry for you!” Because there is nothing more deadly than covering a big event that is just not happening and gives no indication of when it will occur.

On Saturday, the National Post reported that the journalists who have been staking out the entrance to the hospital wing where Kate is supposed to deliver her baby have gotten so bored after more than a week there, that they are interviewing each other. The accompanying photo shows an army of stepladders, which are used to mark the spots of various media organizations, and in the middle of this aluminum jungle, a man, presumably a journalist, appears absorbed in reading a book.Lace on Point d'Esprit high quality high neck wedding dresses gowns with a scalloped neckline and cap sleeves.

“On Wednesday, they resorted to interviewing each other: the British are interviewing the Americans, the Japanese interviewed the Canadian, and the Canadian interviewed the Germans,” the Post reported.

News media are “spread across three sections of the street, stretching perhaps 200 metres” and “Camera crews and photographers have set up tripods and step-ladders along the curb, using tape to mark off the spots they’ve secured. (They are) anxious not to miss the world’s first glimpse of the royal baby …”

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