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Posted by Transmute Jun on 16-04-2011 at 22:58:
Royal Wedding Preview
Secret Wedding Rehearsal video for William and Kate...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kav0FEhtLug&feature=player_embedded
Gotta love East 17.... 
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Posted by UnpublishedWriter on 16-04-2011 at 23:21:
I wasn't certain if it was for real until I saw the Prince of Wales getting down. Even HRH was in the mood.
Wonder if the actual wedding will be the usual staid affair?
(Love to be a fly on the wall for the numerous meetings before this was done.)
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 16-04-2011 at 23:48:
If you look closely, you can tell the members of the royal family are not right, although it's very well done. William appears to be far too small when he enters. I believe the real William is much taller.
I don't know Kate's family well enough to say how good the lookalikes are.
It's fun, though!
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Posted by Becky Rock on 17-04-2011 at 00:00:
Hopefully, William will have better luck than his mother did.
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Posted by clouddancer on 17-04-2011 at 00:28:
T- Mobile did a great job. I had a good chuckle once I realized they were all "actors".
I am looking forward to the event and seeing where their lives go.
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Posted by amethyst on 17-04-2011 at 20:33:
It's probably more interesting than the real thing.
Although, I vaguely remember the first one. We were out camping somewhere around Modesto and just had a radio. It was all over the radio and I couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about
To be honest, I still don't understand what all the fuss is about. If I were them, I'd elope rather than have the press all over it.
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Posted by lborgia88 on 18-04-2011 at 04:25:
I confess, that would be rather more entertaining, in many respects, than what I'm likely to see when I haul myself out of bed at an obscenely early hour (for me) on April 29 to watch the real thing.
Having to be in a wedding on that scale, with that much fuss and media attention, would be a nightmare for me, but I enjoy watching other people, who are not me, do it. (But then, if I ever got married, City Hall on a Tuesday morning would be my plan...)
For all that monarchy seems pretty irrelevant now, I can still respect the visible symbols of ~1000 years of more-or-less institutional/political continuity. Not too many places have that. Plus, growing up in Canada, there was more emphasis on it, though it's lessened over the years, I believe. All through elementary school, I remember there always being a formal picture of Queen Elizabeth in the classroom, usually above the blackboard. My mother even let me skip an afternoon of school in grade 7 to go with a friend and her mother into Halifax to watch Prince Charles and Diana plant a ceremonial tree on the Halifax Common.
Posted by gatchamarie on 18-04-2011 at 10:22:
I've managed to watch this act on the telly just yesterday and I chuckled all the way!! Becky made a good statement ... hopefully, this marriage (the union and not the ceremony) would be better than the one of William's mother! Things seem to have really changed with the years, even though all the fuss around the English royal family, together with all the commercial activity, hasn't changed at all!
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 18-04-2011 at 14:31:
People still follow them, but it's more of a celebrity thing, I think (at least, over here). Interestingly, in Canada, people seem more informed about the royal family, but in the US, people are less informed, but more interested! Weird...
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Posted by amethyst on 18-04-2011 at 16:43:
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I wonder if that has something to do with the fact Canada, while independent, still considers itself under the monarchy, but the US completely severed all governmental ties?
We're curious, but it doesn't affect us type of thing.
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Posted by Ebonyswanne on 19-04-2011 at 04:38:
Its well done! Funny to watch, great find TJ. 
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Posted by lborgia88 on 19-04-2011 at 17:33:
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It is a bit different. Unlike the US President, the Prime Minister of Canada is not, technically, the head of state -that's Queen Elizabeth. Except she's represented in Canada, by a stand-in known as the Governor General (currently David Johnston). However, the Queen always appoints as Governor General the person recommended by the Prime Minister, and the Governor General always signs off on any legislation that's passed the House of Commons and the Senate.
On occasion, the role of the Governor General gets more interesting-and-less-ceremonial...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932009_Canadian_parliamentary_dispute
At any rate, I guess there's always a dim awareness, in Canada, that the British Royals are, albeit very distantly, a part of the overall governmental structure. And the Queen is on every coin, after all.
Posted by Ebonyswanne on 20-04-2011 at 23:36:
In Australia the Governor Generals role was downgraded after Whitlim Government was sacked in the 1970's and Aussie's were not impressed about that at all. She's still represented by the chosen person currently, but the office doesn't hold the same power any more. Eventually I think it will become less and less.
(We love our British connections, here thats for sure, but not to have them or other countries ordering us around like puppets on a string or dictating to us.) Disclaimer; My personal opinion, from observations and responses to things in local history.
LB- Your link didn't work for me, it came up as an error in Wiki.
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Posted by lborgia88 on 21-04-2011 at 00:41:
Hmm, so I guess the 11am ceremony in London will be happening at around 8pm in your part of the world, Ebony? That's sure a favourable time difference you Australians have there!
If I want to watch it live, I'm going to have to be tuning in at 6am my time -NOT my preferred time to watch anything on TV.
Posted by Ebonyswanne on 21-04-2011 at 01:38:
I think so, I haven't looked into it yet, but I'm going to record it so the my little girls (Whos just turned 4 & 3,) can watch it the next day. My eldest daughter especially is facinated with Princesses and brides so I figure she's love seeing a real Princess getting married with a horse draw carriage like Cinderella.
My little girl has asked me at times to google pictures of brides and Princess for her!!! kids learn fast about computers...
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Posted by littlewolf on 21-04-2011 at 02:25:
Hopefully this one is about love...and not about alliances and politics.
Now that I am pretending to be a mature adult (sometimes) I understand that (my opinion) his mothers marriage seemed to be more about politics, it's an age old traditions to cement alliances between different families and countries (been around for centures and still is used), stengthen ties and produce heirs, from an outsider view it may seem cold and calculating, but, it is what it is and for the most part it seems to work (as long as both parties know what it's about in the first place), ...duty to family and country...(shades of Gatchaman... duty befor personal needs)
But..then there was Edward VIII who abdicated in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson a divorced American, they stayed married for about 35years till his death separated them..nice to think sometimes love wins out on duty
Anyway as an Aussie I like the fact that we are still part of monarchy (my opinion, this is always a hot potato subject over here), we are still a fairly young country( 1770s), still have a lot of growing to do , and even though we are a fairly large country we are isolated by water and have limited resources, infrastructure and limited amount of living space, so can't hold a very large population (it's hard to live in the middle unless you have UBER great survival skills, mostly desert and little water or shelter and our citys are outgrowing out infrastructue at a very fast rate, the Brissy floods were a good example of this)
Anyhow (my opinion) I'm not ready to be a Republic, (have yet to hear a good reason for this or what the impact will be) I love my Flag, my official nation anthem and the unofficial ones, this country, these people, Kiwis, Taswegian and the "she'll be right" attitude we have.
I may not have my eyes glued to the telli, but I'll be channel surfing to the ceremonly between adds.
..end small rant...
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 21-04-2011 at 13:34:
I heard on the news this morning that YESTERDAY the Queen and Prince Phillip finally met Kate's parents. What is it, less than 2 weeks before the wedding? And how long ahve William and Kate been dating? And they never met her parents?
My guess is that Kate isn't 'high class' enough for them, but they're accepting her because they understand that they can't afford another 'bad marriage' scandal in the royal family.
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Posted by lborgia88 on 22-04-2011 at 15:43:
Wow, that does seem odd. I suppose it's not so rare for grandparents to not have met the parents of their grandson's girlfriend-then-fiance until the wedding, but when the grandparents are the Queen and Prince Philip... you'd think they'd have met the Middletons somewhere over the past several years. I imagine that Prince Charles, at least, has met them long before this -or I'd hope so! I wouldn't be surprised, though, if the Queen had been hoping or expecting William to marry someone from a family with more "prestigious" lineage.
Then again, maybe it's possible that the Middletons are determined not to be perceived as "pushy social climbers trying to ride their daughter's coattails" and have themselves avoided chances to meet them.
Now that I think about it, no one in my family has ever met anyone in my BF's family, though he's met my family and I've met his. Though that's largely due to geographical distance. Guess it would take a wedding to bring it off!
Posted by Ebonyswanne on 23-04-2011 at 10:31:
Littlewolf- You're so right that is a hot topic here in Aussie, honestly, the last deal we got for a republic was lousy anyway, no wonder most people basically said "Ahhh...NO! We're not dumb...
Yes its nice all the publicity we're having here for it, i noticed Kate stayed at home during his visit a month ago to flood affect zones. Maybe they're trying to not to repeat to much of his parents...or, she was desperatley needed for a dress fitting, and of course all the bridemaids drama needed sorting.... and then there was her parents and the "Meet the royals" crickey.... (Meet the Fockers movies bounces into my thoughts at this time...)
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 29-04-2011 at 16:08:
This one is NOT a joke. Fashion faux pas at the wedding...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1381892/Royal-wedding-2011-Princess-Beatrice-Eugenie-fashion-flops-again.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
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