Living in the days of “A ROYAL WEDDING!”
So I will admit that I was like who cares about who Prince William is marrying. I don’t even know the name of the Queen (Elizabeth?) and I thought William and Harry were Charles’ brothers. I believe that the monarchy has no real place in this society apart from tourism and I actually don’t think I would recognise any royal if they walked into my room in this moment.
But…marriage is lovely! Two people love each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together. They want to be each others family. They can’t really rely on their old families anymore, they have to rely on each other. I know because they are royal it’s slighltly different but honestly I love when 2 people make this commitment to each other. Instead of all these dreadful programmes about the worst in humanity (The Only Way is Essex, Jersey Shore, Big Brother, Teen Pregnancies), there should be a show dedicated to real life love stories. Interviewing people who are getting married soon, telling their love story (also from the perspective of friends and family because the couple in question probably aren’t going to tell you about how she tried to seduce him one night and hit him in the face, or when his mother discloses that she won’t be good enough for him). Also, interviewing older couples who fell in love when they were 16, and are still together 60 years later depsite all the hard times they have lived through.
It’s impossible that we could get a bank holiday and celebrate the joyous union of everybody who gets married, but I think it’s nice that we get to do it for Kate and William.
#end of stupid girly idealism
