Kate Middletons nine-year Waity status got the whitewash treatment
So much news about Prince William and Kate Middleton! Unfortunately, the news is not all that exciting, so I’m just going to recap some stories going around, and then I’ll get to the good stuff (my rant about Lifetime’s Will & Kate movie, which was dreadful). Here are some highlights:
*Kate Middleton’s family has now given themselves a family crest. I find the idea of a family like the Middletons – nouveau riche! – getting a family crest to be rather pushy and silly in the grand scheme of things, but they’ve got one, and now the Middleton crest will be joined with William’s crest once they are married. CB likes the Middleton crest – she thinks it’s pretty and feminine. I think the upside-down acorns are fruity. Needs more lions.
*Will and Kate asked people to donate to charity in lieu of actual wedding presents, and the charities have already racked up six-figures in donations.
*George Michael recorded a cover of Stevie Wonder’s “You and I” for Will and Kate. Michael says: “I want Will and Kate to know that this is a genuine gift, not a promo exercise. It’s a gift that they’ll be able to turn into many, many donations.” But he’s not going to the wedding: “They should [be] surrounded by people they love…not dodgy ex-con pop stars.”
*As for the night before the wedding, sources are claiming that William is going to spend the evening with his father or with his brother, or perhaps both. According to the British tabloids, Will is spending the night at St. James’s Palace with his dad because “Prince Charles is a loving father who’s a lot closer to his sons than people often realize. He’s made it clear his priority in the hours before the wedding is his son.”
* But what about Harry? According to Us Weekly’s sources, “William asked Harry to spend the night at Clarence House, the night before the wedding… It’ll be great for the two brothers to be together before the big day. I’m sure Harry can help William with any last-minute nerves.”
*Kate Middleton went shopping for her “honeymoon gear”. Ladies, whatever happened to the word “trousseau”? It’s so much fancier.
Okay now for my rant – you don’t have to read this if you didn’t watch Lifetime’s Will & Kate. IT WAS TERRIBLE. It was so bad, it wasn’t even cheesy-good. They made so many huge errors in the actual timeline, and they just wholly manufactured a great deal. Their version of Waity Katie was all plucky, moody and uppity, while the version of Will was dashing and romantic. Does anyone believe that? I hated that they got the first photographed kiss (in Switzerland) wrong. I hate that they showed the 2007 breakup, and then two minutes late he was proposing! Um, there was like three years of WAITING in there. I also hated that Waity’s job at Jigsaw – which she actually did for only a handful of months in 2006 – was somehow spread out over the course of the show like Waity was just WORKING and WORKING all the time. She wasn’t. She just spent NINE YEARS WAITING for her prince to call her. I hated that the “other women” were so misrepresented – William dated/slept with many women while he was with Kate, during the course of those nine years.
I just felt like they got the basic personalities of Kate and William so, so wrong. Kate is docile, like a geisha. She doesn’t storm out of cars in the middle of a fight. She doesn’t talk smack to an upper-crust girl. She doesn’t confirm or deny the state of her underwear. And William is in reality a wishy-washy bastard, like his father. They portrayed him as commanding and forward, and he just isn’t. UGH.
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