You Don’t Have To Wait For The Royal Wedding To Get Your Royal Wedding Fix

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by Mark Joyella | 4:34 pm, April 22nd, 2011

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Maybe you’ve heard there’s a wedding coming up over in England or something? Bit of a big deal, and all of our American journalists are bailing on spending Easter with their families so they can be in London to cover this shindig. Anyway, if you’re beside yourself with William and Kate fever, your friends on TV have you covered. No need to wait–it’s Royal Weddingpalooza right now!

CNN’s airs a Soledad O’Brien documentary, The Women Who Would Be Queen Sunday night at 8 p.m. (with additional airtimes). The doc deals not just with Kate Middleton, but also Princess Diana:

“(The documentary) explores how the future King and Queen have been influenced by the legacy of his mother, Princess Diana, and are forging a very modern royal marriage. O’Brien chronicles their friendship-turned-romance, and how they are preparing for an “ordinary” married life in North Wales following their nuptials.”

O’Brien’s documentary features extensive interviews with friends of Kate Middleton and people who were close to the late Princess Diana, including photographers, bodyguards, and Diana’s music teacher.

TLC also gets its royal wedding on this weekend, with Charles and Di: Once Upon a Time, on Sunday at 7 p.m. The two hour special looks back to that royal wedding, complete with “never-seen-before footage” and “poptoid graphics on screen (that) reveal little-known facts and behind-the-scenes trivia about what made this a fairytale wedding come true.”

Here’s a look at The Women Who Would Be Queen, from CNN:

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The Lantern of Truth

Is CNN planning to cover the Royal Divorce as well ?
Ardiva

Been there and done that on Lifetime channel.
felixw

If Prince William demanded to see the President’s birth certificate he could get round-the-clock coverage on MSNBC (and Mediaite).
CAINtheBULL

The media is shoving the ‘royal’ wedding down our throats. Anything to make money.
writer

I’ll wait for the movie to come out. And not watch it either.
ordinary

They wouldn’t be showing the royal wedding stuff unless people were interested. That’s another change in the average American since when I was a kid. (about 100 years ago)

We fought a war of independence to get away from that family, now everyone is enamored with British royalty, who are actually German. They changed their name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the house of Windsor during WW1 because of the high anti-German sentiment.

Not that the current Royals are bad people like King George III in 1776, but I can distinctly remember a time when most Americans considered even the concept of royalty as fundamentally evil and un-American. I think it all began to change gradually about the time JFK was elected. That family was treated like royalty by many. I remember going to a friend’s house shortly after he was elected. They had a large picture of JFK, and sort of a shrine set up with JFK stuff in one corner of their living room. Even as a young teen, it creeped me out.
writer

If nothing else, Prince Charles proved that an ugly guy can land a hot chick. If he has a few billion in the bank.
THE REAL ROYAL KING

I didn’t see the lamestream media rushing to cover Brisket Palin’s wedding.
Raygun

felixw said:
If Prince William demanded to see the President’s birth certificate he could get round-the-clock coverage on MSNBC (and Mediaite).

And he’d have a 90% approval rating among tea partiers.
seek

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
I didn’t see the lamestream media rushing to cover Brisket Palin’s wedding.

Can you even imagine – someone is so insane that they hijack every thread with their hate for Palin? Hmmm, wonder if they are working on medicine for your illness Royal? Hope so, or you could go through life with deeper and deeper issues until you won’t be able to function without mentioning Sarah every second – oh wait, you’re there already.

Admit it sweets. You’re secretly in love with her and just can’t get her out of your mind. lol
murf

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
I didn’t see the lamestream media rushing to cover Brisket Palin’s wedding.

Are you the one just issued a restraining order ?
The Lantern of Truth

Will this wedding be catered by Royal Castle ?

mmm , Royal Castle .

Will they have one of those wedding cakes mades of glazed doughnuts ?

Lots of questions .
felixw

Raygun said:
And he’d have a 90% approval rating among tea partiers.

Get real, the people who won’t stop jawboning about the birth certificate are liberals. Whenever I tune into MSNBC, it’s the only story I hear covered. When I listen to Fox, I almost never hear it mentioned.

And this is all for a good reason. The left is incapable of defending the President’s track record on the economy, the border, unemployment, foreign policy, the deficit, the budget or any other important issue. The only thing about Obama they can defend is his place of birth. So I don’t expect them to let go of the birther issue any time soon.
writer

Lantern, to cover all the bases, I’ve been to Buckingham Palace, and to White Castle.
Cecelia

And the BBC currently is replete with monarchy filled tv fare of the most superfluous nature!

Love it!
alwaysawesome6

yes exactly !!