...and I also already had a ring very similar to Diana's before Kate received hers, but mine is smaller, blue topaz in the middle, and yellow gold instead of white. She did get her name first, I'll give her that...she is Catherine Elizabeth while I am Katherine Ellen. My prince proposed first after dating me a shorter time and we beat her and Wills to making it all legal too, though they get their big ceremony before Andrew and I.
I find I have an affinity for her. She had to wait on a military man (albeit a unique one), and she did so patiently, with reserve and her chin up rather than with complaint, and she supports him...she appears to me to be what he needs, she seems a quietly strong woman, and she is ready to sacrifice for the love of him. Sounds rather familiar.
I know some people are sick of the hype already, some are bah humbug about the whole thing, but I for one find this royal wedding to be a great thing. Instead of sitting around hearing about this or that celebrity doing ridiculous amounts of drugs, being promiscuous or cheating on their significant others, people splitting up and general strife in the world, my television is filled with a young upstanding couple who haven't been in serious trouble and who no one speaks ill of who appear to be genuinely in love and excited to proclaim that and make their vows to each other. I think it's fantastic, and I enjoy their story.
Letterman felt the need to make cracks about being uninterested in the royal wedding, but waiting on the royal divorce. I'm sorry, but what a complete ass. Way to just be a completely bitter pessimist and have to take a dig at a young man who has been thrust into the public eye his whole life because of the family he happened to be born into, whose parents split in a manner that had to be extremely rough on him, and then lost his mother in such a tragic way...he came through it to become a gracious person, obviously affected by things and reserved, who probably spent so long dating Kate because he wanted to be sure, wanted things to go well, wanted to keep his commitment once he made it, and you're going to sneer at them and predict failure? I just think it's really snarky. Obviously I could be dead wrong in my impression of Prince William's personality from his portrayal by the press, but they love to dig up scandal so if he was awful I'm sure we'd hear more about it.
I dislike that that pessimism seems so prevalent, that people in our society seem to treat marriage as a temporary thing with a good chance of ending in a divorce, and oh well, don't worry too much you can always get out of it....ridiculous. I made vows that said they were till death, and I'm going to be repeating that when Andrew and I can have our big ceremony with our family members there, I meant it March 11th and I mean it today and I will mean it then. Vows don't expire or wear off, you don't cross your fingers behind your back and say JK!!!1! I committed to my husband for better or worse...not just when it's easy and I'm twitterpated and feeling giddy and in love, I choose to love him even when things are hard. I get the impression Will and Kate want to vow to choose to love each other for better or worse for real, not just because it's in that traditional little spiel you have to repeat...I hope I'm right. I do have those moments of discernment that are more accurate than I give credit to after all...
2 comments:
I concur!
I was quite happy to hear that he gave her his mother's engagement ring. What an honor for Kate! She's going to find this marriage thing a bit interesting. The rest of us find marriage hard work and we're not in the international public spotlight!
From the very little I know of her, she seems to be his match in every way. From the smiles on both their faces I hope their marriage is a happy and fulfilling one.
Well said Katie!
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