Prince William has confirmed he will marry Kate Middleton next year

[phipps]

I wonder if we will get a Bank Holiday for it.

ref degree this is going to sound bitchy BUT it is true. when i was at edinburgh it was commonly known that if you werent that intelligent but needed to go to university (to get passport into PR/marriage) then endinburgh history of art was preferred route for gals of that ilk, and if you couldnt get the grades then st andrews was a happy compromise. the degree was well known for its (ahem) lesser challenging aspects.

that said i am sure KM is far more intelligent than perhaps some are given credit for. she snared a king! that takes some planning.

sorry, should have written "less challenging aspects"

I remember Jeremy Hardy describing History of Art as "putting paintings in chronological order"!

Boring boring
someone told me somewhere can't remember when that this is what her Mother has been angling for for years

I'd much rather he married into minor European royalty I think the Sweedish princesses are pretty (but I think he's missed his chance!)

PMSL at HOA
I to have heard that it's what those not up to a degree are encouraged to switch to

I do not really care much for the royals, but if we get a day off, could it be in the autumn, please. There are no bank holidays from August to Christmas.

I'd bet on it that it WON't be in July, certainly.

Some of the comments here astonish me, in contrast to the 'ooh you nasty judgy person' stuff that comes up when anyone dares criticise someone's parenting. Apparently not looking after your kids properly is fine and a matter of personal choice, 'we don't know the circumstances' etc, but someone not having had a stellar career makes them worse than Hitler! Amazing set of collective value judgements - not something for MN to shout about, I feel.

If the wedding is in June it can only be the 2nd weekend as Granny has prior commitments that she never misses:

1st weekend in June is Epsom Derby

3rd weekend in June is the end of Royal Ascot

4th weekend in June (this year) is Prince Philip's 90th.

I would imagine that cup cakes will be a central tenet of the struggle.

This makes things rather difficult chez unruly as I was going to make this the inaugural year of the unruly street street party (iykwim) but now there's the danger that bunting will be misunderstood as a gesture of gawdblessemness. Can't have that - will William's severed head detract from homemade scones I wonder?

royal weddings are usually weekdays and usually not in the midst of holiday season.

I agree that a big royal expensive wedding is the last thing we need in the present economic climate. Also don't need saturation coverage of Kate's clothes, Kate's family, Kate's wedding dress etc etc when there are far more important things going on.

Otherwise, let them on with it. I think comments about Kate being dull or looking like a horse or 'just settling' are nasty.

You all need to buy games consoles, should this madness dominate the news (it's not news), you can spend the time shooting people in the face, believe me it never gets old. Thats all I do all day, only things I watch on TV is Top Gear, Two and a half men and the Apprentice.

Hence the reason I was surprised at all this, I thought the Daily Mash where having a joke not a slight dig at an actual event when I read that the other day.

As long as it isn't on the 6th July, as I'm going to see Take That at Wembley (priorities).

DD informed me last night that we must go to the church next year and see the Princess in her dress get married to the Prince. AIBU to ban Disney from the house forthwith?

Jealousy - admit it your blooming jealous! U can't help yourselves! Why don't u get better jobs then maybe u won't feel so jealous! Be nicer people and get some work done the maybe you can have a happy life like wills and kate xx

It's like the 80's all over again.

I wonder whether they are really in love - particularly from William's side.

It must be a nightmare for William to find someone who truly loves him for his own personal qualities without being sidetracked by the prospect of being a future Queen of England (whether the girl relished that or not). The fact that it has taken SOOO long to get engaged and that he finished with her for a bit doesn't bode that well imo.

My guess is that he plumped for the safe option of a fairly nice girl, who has "done her time" and remained loyal and discreet, but he may not truly be passionate about. The other less palatable alternative would be to let himself loose on the dating market and expose himself to all the wannabe queens out there.

I feel a bit sorry for him really. I just hope she isn't being used as a brood mare by the royal family like Diana was.

Prince Phillip is turning 90? They obviously decided to have the wedding pdq before he popped his clogs. Looking forward to his speech....

Actually I still feel that I don't care too much about the wedding, wish them well etc, but it's the coverage around it that I hate. As I said a LOT lower down this thread, so happy not to be in the UK at the moment and have to put up with the minute by minute "as it happened" scraping the bottle of the barrel let's interview another Lady Haw Haw royal watcher CRAP.

I'm excited! Who will get to design the dress I wonder!

lovecat no just give into it, Dd2 wants to be Cinderella when she grows up. She'll grow out of it (hopeful emoticon)

unrulysunDoes anyone know what time the revolution is starting? Just sharpening my axe and I'll need to change at Clapham Junction and Victoria will be busy so I'll have to leave in plenty of time and dd will need a bath and probably some spiky armour of some description so I'll have to pick that up on the way...

We are having a revolution aren't we?

Lovely! I'll meet you at Victoria then?!

MardyBra

Maybe that´s why it took so long.

He wanted to know how determined her mother was for her to be Queen if she really loved him.

MARDYBRA - DH and I were together for 10 years before we got engaged. So were my mum and dad. Both very happy marriages and real long lasting love. We had horrendous rows at one point before we were engaged - and nearly split but am so glad we never did. They were very young when they met - and marrying into the Royal Family must be incredibly weird no matter how much in love you are. It would take me a while to embrace that one.

I though Harry was a little Hewitt too but he is looking more and more like his mad old grandad and seems to have a similar sense of humour. 'Have you heard the one about the Nazi, the rag head and the slitty eyed git?' The long winter evenings fly by at Balmoral.