HRH Prince Harry of Wales and his brother’s fiancée, Catherine Middleton, attended a grand wedding this evening in Britain.
According to the Sun newspaper, Prince William’s close friend, Harry Aubrey-Fletcher, married his longtime gal, Miss Louise Stourton.
The bride looks like she wore a giant bed-sheet while the groom looked, well, dazed.
Meanwhile, Miss Catherine Middleton looked very happy… beaming knowing that her own wedding to HRH Prince William was just months away. Miss Middleton wore a knee length black velvet coat, black hat, black knee length dress, and purple shoes. Of course, she wore her trademark black eyeliner encircling her eyes like a raccoon (gurl, just stop! Step away from the black eyeliner!)
Oh and Princess Beatrice was there… looking like a frightful hot mess.
To view loads of images please click these links: The Sun and Daily Mail
The geniuses who brought you Miss Charlene Wittstock’s infamous cover a few months ago, looking like Sharon Stone’s cheap sleazy sister from the movie Casino, are at it again. Yup, that’s right… it’s Tatler Magazine!
Yay!
To say that the editor as well as art director and design team have failed yet again is an understatement. So who is their victim this month? Why it is Miss Catherine Middleton (you know… the woman who is about to marry HRH Prince William of Wales on April 29, 2011.)
Someone at Tatler Magazine had the Einstein idea to give her the “…Andy Warhol treatment… a pop art-style montage…” Look, I’ll just cut to the case: The cover is one hot freaking mess! First, there was that gawd awful coin of Miss Middleton and HRH Prince William. Now, there is this tacky and otherwise ugly cover.
The bottom righthand corner photo makes her look like a green monster from hell. The layout is just… ugh! I honestly feel bad for Miss Middleton. Furthermore, I am beginning to wonder if those who make the final decisions at Tatler Magazine secretly hate royals and princely families. Yeah, I know they are a “high society” magazine, but honestly… I just don’t know what else to say. Except…
In case you were wondering, Miss Middleton did not give an interview with the magazine and the image is from the official engagement announcement press conference back in November 2010.
Source and photo courtesy of: Daily Mail via Tatler Magazine
Per the official website of the British Monarchy here are the latest details in regards to the upcoming British royal wedding on April 29, 2011.
Miss Catherine Middleton will travel to the wedding service at Westminster Abbey by car along a route that will include The Mall, Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, and Parliament Square.
The wedding service will begin at 11am. The Dean of Westminster Abbey will conduct the service, the Archbishop of Canterbury will marry HRH Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton, and the Bishop of London will give the address.
The new royal couple, now married, will return along a Processional Route in a carriage procession to Buckingham Palace. The route will include Parliament Square, Whitehall, Horse Guard Parade, and The Mall.
On arrival at Buckingham Palace, The Queen will give a reception for the couple and guests drawn from the congregations representing the royal couple’s official and private lives.
The Prince of Wales will give a private dinner, followed by dancing, at Bucking ham Palace in the evening, for the couple and their close friends and family.
Source: The British Monarchy Photo courtesy of Mario Testino/Clarence House Press Office
I know, I know… you are wondering why I chose this event ahead of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark’s pregnancy announcement. The reason why I decided on this particular event is due to one person. You got it… Miss Charlene Wittstock.
Since the startling announcement that HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco was engaged to Miss Wittstock it was only a matter of time until we saw her with the rest of the Princely family on the balcony of the Palais Princier de Monaco. Naturally, it was going to happen. She is after all Prince Albert’s fiancée.
Miss Wittstock basically stole the show on November 19, 2010, starting with that Eva Peronesque suit she wore during the day. Let’s not sugarcoat this… she looked ridiculous. Way too over the top. Her hat looked like a giant satellite dish, while her skirt was way too tight. Unfortunately, for her, the skirt flattened her rear-end which, as a result, gave her a massive pancake butt. The gloves, oh no. Tsk tsk. Simply wrong on all levels.
After the church service and balcony wave-a-thon the Princely family of Monaco attended a fancy gala concert. Everyone looked lovely, including Miss Wittstock (wearing an altered Armani Prive beaded ombre gown.) HSH Prince Albert II , however, looked like a head waiter at some restaurant in Boca Raton, Florida.
All in all it was a lovely day.
To watch two video clips from Monaco’s National Day please click the links: TF1.fr and You Tube
Source and Photos courtesy of: Nice-Matin, Zimbio.com by Frederic Nebinger-Pool/Getty Images Europe, and Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images.
2.) HRH Prince William of Wales announces his engagement to Miss Catherine Middleton.
No one is actually that surprised that HRH Prince William of Wales finally asked his college sweetheart, Miss Catherine Middleton, to marry him. At least, I’m not.
I don’t know what else to say except… congrats to the couple.
The British royal wedding will take place on April 29, 2011, at Westminster Abbey, and if you are thinking about traveling to London for the big day… forget it. It will be a madhouse. First, all hotels within the city are booked. Solid. Second, you would probably enjoy watching the wedding on television then being smashed together with screaming and otherwise smelly people only to have a quick two second glance at the new royal couple.
You can watch the interview with HRH Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton by clicking this link: You Tube
Here is the official photo-op and quick Q&A with the press: You Tube
Photo courtesy of Mario Testino/Clarence House Press Office.
While the members of the British royal family (minus Prince William who had to work) spent their holiday together at the Queen’s modest pad, Sandringham, Miss Catherine Middleton spent the holidays with her family at their home in Berkshire.
The paparazzi once again photographed the future Queen of England as she drove home with her family from somewhere… I don’t know where, but they went somewhere in lovely old England.
Miss Middleton was all smiles, of course, during the quick drive into her parents home (she must have received amazing presents this year thus the mega watt smile.)
Meanwhile, Catherine’s fiance (who seemed to have lost even more hair since the Mario Testino shoot last month :snicker:) was “…on call with his search-and-rescue squadron at RAF Valley on Anglesey” according to the Daily Mail.
Photos courtesy of Zimbio by PacificCoastNews.com and www.dailymail.co.uk by Viewfinder Pictures-Chester.
Yes, that oh-so-important question is heavily debated in the royal watching community these days… it’s almost like watching CNN’s old show, Crossfire. People bitching and yelling as to whom will be the more stunning bride and other inane issues. Any way, now the magazines are in on the discussion.
Gala Magazine recently featured Miss Catherine Middleton and Miss Charlene Wittstock on their cover; inside there is commentary as to whom will have a more memorable as well as beautiful wedding. It seems that the writer has already made up his/her mind: Miss Catherine Middleton will dominate when it comes to the Battle of the Royal Weddings (actually, Monaco is a Principality so the wedding will be Princely not Royal.)
In the December issue of Elle France, there is also an editorial dedicated to Charlene and Catherine. The whole side-by-side comparison is seriously lame, but hey this type of debate sells magazines, and again… whatever.
I don’t know. The discussion as to whom will be the more memorable bride and/or which wedding will be more beautiful is rather silly, in my opinion. I’m just hoping someone will screw up — hence tripping down the aisle, or forgetting their soon-to-be husbands name, or crying like a baby. You get the picture. LOL.
Frankly, neither women are that extraordinary. No, I don’t mean aesthetically; rather both women wasted their lives following their boyfriends all over hell and gone in the hopes of a marriage proposal. And they got it.
Neither Charlene or Catherine made the most of their education (or lack thereof in Charlene’s case) or lives as strong independent women. Frankly, I find that quite sad. It’s incredibly unfortunate that neither Charlene nor Catherine had a career and/or worked hard prior to their soon-to-be structured lives as Princesses. It’s too bad they didn’t follow in the intelligent footsteps of say Crown Princess Maxima of the Netherlands or Crown Princess Masako of Japan, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, or even Princess Letizia of Asturias. Instead, in my opinion, Catherine and Charlene were weak women… at the beck and call of their then boyfriends now fiances.
Pathetic.
Okay, enough of my rant. Sorry.
Right. So there you have it: Two major upcoming weddings. One Royal. One Princely. Both will be memorable as well as beautiful in their own unique way.
Photo scans courtesy of Bystander from Royal Dish.com. Yes, she gave me permission to use these four scans in my post… so there. 🙂
HRH Prince Harry of Wales and his brother’s fiancée, Catherine Middleton, attended a grand wedding this evening in Britain.
