Who's Who at The Royal Wedding...
Felicity Arbuthnot
"Out beyond ideas of right thinking and wrong thinking, there is a field, I'll meet you there." Rumi (1207-1273.)
The Surviveable, the Bad and the Over the Top
The wedding of the heir to the British throne, Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales, to his lady friend of eight years Catherine Elizabeth Middleton ("Kate") promises to be a modest affair, in these austere times, with nineteen hundred guests, a near unprecedented police presence, possibly a thousand members of the armed forces lining the route the couple will take to the ceremony, in the nine hundred years old, Westminster Abbey, on 29th April.
Beneath streets decked with the Union flag (more frequently burned across the world for a couple of decades, than joyously hung) police are carrying out fingertip searches for explosive devices, lifting drain covers, then lying flat with their heads in the drains, to check. A thankless task. Buttons are removed from pedestrian crossings to check nothing is hidden in the wiring box, street furniture taken apart, monuments and statues scrutinized - and an estimated twenty million £s of taxpayers' money being burned up. Seventy to eighty "close protection teams" will be be on hand for heads of state (50) and VIPs at Friday's festivities, cost, so far, unknown.
It's a far cry from the remote isle of Anglesey in Wales (also known as "RAF Valley") where Prince William has been based as a search and rescue pilot. Seemingly the couple have been sharing a rural home there and, according to a bar employee of the White Eagle at Rhoscolyn, quoted in the Daily Mail: “They’re just like any other young couple in love — until you realize they’ve got armed bodyguards on the next table.” Quite.
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