Mission accomplished.

The Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall England rugby player have been marriedin a wonderful ceremony in Scotland today.The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were at the wedding in Canongate Kirk It has been Scotland's first royal wedding in almost 20 years. Prince Charles and Camilla, Prince William and Catherine, and Prince Harry were at the ceremony and also at the reception at Holyroodhouse.The bride's dress was designed by Stewart Parvin, she wore a veil, tiara and Jimmy Choo shoes.
Beautiful, elegant couple. We like that fact that this was not a big grand national wedding, but family event, even though very much in the public gaze.

Another Royal Wedding!

So, we have another Royal Wedding on the horizon,Zara will be marrying Mike Tindall this weekend, tomorrow actually, she is the granddaughter of the Queen,who must be so very proud, to have had another wonderful Royal Wedding in the same year.Although it must be said, Zara has a much more casual and down to Earth approach than Kate and Wills of course.They arrived for the rehearsal at the Royal Mile Church in Scotland, and even the bride who originally had booked the dayfor her own wedding, was kind enough to step aside, and let the Royal Wedding proceed in her place.
 
 

Next year

Next year will be Her Majesty the Queen's Royal Diamond Jubilee,
the Olympics will come to London, (Only a year away!), and William and Kateare favoured to light the Olympic Torch. The Olympics coming to London will create
thousands of new jobs, the main concourse at the Olympic Stadium will see about
400,000 people a day attending the events. The main venues are pretty much complete
with the work now being to install the temporary building installations.
On top of this, Boris Johnson has invited 10,000 people to be part of the opening ceremony,
"and you don't have to be able to act!".

Drug Fueled

Ruper Murdoch has given a hand on heart apology,
two executives have resigned. His media empire has taken a huge hit.
It seems that the underlying reality of the way things are actually done, shocks people.
When in fact, it has been the norm for a long time.
Otherwise, the news would be bland, and uninteresting, instead of the hghly exciting world
of stars and celebs, and who they are sleeping with, "drug fueled sex romps!" with footballers etc.
"Tory MP caught outside nightclub with actress". "New and latest scandal!".
But they definitely crossed the line with the Milly Dowler family, the great thing about the states
is that they sue for cash, whereas in the UK, they seek "an apology".
They talk about hurt and shame, but are unable to put a price on where it really hurts.
Everything blowws over, and on they go.

Snafu

The Uk media is in turmoil currently, the dark underbelly of politics and investigative
reporting, police corruption, and really underhanded tactics, has bee revealed.
Rupert Murdoch's bid to gain control of BskyB and dominate the entertainment and
news media has been given a resounding no.
Cameron is on the defensive, the News of the World, Britain's 168 year old Sunday Tabloid
has been closed in a poker play by Murdoch, but the forces unleashed have not played out yet.
 
Basically, the usual, it will all settle down, strange that this info should have suddenly been released.

Royal Swans

Swan Upping, is the annual census of the swan population on the River Thames. This year’s Swan Upping will start on Monday 18th July departing from Sunbury and ends at Abingdon, Oxfordshire on Friday 22nd July.The ceremony of Swan Upping dates from the twelfth century and takes place during the third week of July every year.
It has been noted that there have been one hundred and fifteen deaths of swans, there are viruses in the swan population, and there are a number
of concerns about the health and safety of the swans.
 
In 2009 The Queen travelled up the River Thames to witness the historic ceremony for the first time.

Kate and Wills

Kate and Wills are having a gently introduction to public life.
A bit overshadowed by the News of the World controversy in the UK this week.
There was a visit scheduled to a town damaged by fire in Canada, the intent to present
them with cowboy hats.
 
~Strangely enought, there was some anti royal feeling in Quebec, where the couple
received a positive welcome from the Mayor of the city.
 
Some anti-monarchists had taken to the streets to protest the visit.Ah well, all comes with the territory.