After the Royal Wedding, Prince William and his new bride will be looking to honeymoon far from the photographers and journalists who have hounded the pair as they prepare to wed. As AP explained:
Tens of thousands of tourists and members of the media arrive in London ahead of the royal wedding on Friday. (April 25)
? In real estate, it?s location, location, location. For royal honeymooners, it?s privacy, privacy, privacy. Once they are man and wife, Prince William and Kate Middleton may combine the two by honeymooning at the queen?s 50,000-acre Balmoral estate in Scotland, a family holding so vast that the couple could relax without worrying about their every movement being tracked by long-lensed paparazzi.
They would likely combine a stay in Scotland, a beautiful spot but with iffy weather, with a visit to a reliably sunny locale, royal experts believe.
?I think privacy will be the most important thing after all that they will have gone through,? said Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine. ?Maybe a week in the sun and a week in Scotland, which is a traditional royal honeymoon venue. They can do their own thing up there.?
Prince William and Kate Middleton have been battling the mega-celebrity status which has become standard for members of the royal family (and to-be royals). As AP reported:
? Once upon a time, British subjects gazed upon their sovereigns from afar. Not any more. Members of the royal family are now Hollywood-style mega-celebrities ? their cellulite, receding hairlines and boozy nights out subject to the same relentless scrutiny as other A-listers.
The monarchy has gained in star power, and perhaps lost in dignity, since William?s mother, Princess Diana, burst into the royal family in a blonde blaze of charisma and changed it forever.
On British newsstands ahead of Friday?s wedding, Kate and William beam from the covers of celebrity magazines alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones, singer Cheryl Cole and surgically altered glamour model Katie Price. One promises the inside scoop on ?Royal Wedding Meltdowns!? Another says that ?Pals Fear for Skinny Kate.? The royal couple is even on the cover of TV Times ? the wedding will be the television event of the year. It?s easy to forget that it was not always like this.
Coverage of the Royal Wedding has gone global, and the media frenzy over every detail of the upcoming nuptials has some feeling overwhelmed. As Elizabeth Flock explained:
? Manufacturers from around the globe aren?t just making sweet commemorative trinkets that feature a smiling Will and Kate or life size lego replicas of the ceremony. They?re also producing royal wedding vomit bags and vituperative chinaware that says: ?It should have been me? or ?Thanks for the free day off.?
The 20 percent of the crowd that?s American attending the wedding is being described as having ?a few screws charmingly loose.? It didn?t help that a Mexican woman went on a hunger fast to get a ticket to the wedding.
New Yorker?s cover this week, which is a cartoon of Kate and Will desperately trying to hide, reminds us that our laser focus on the happy couple means they don?t stand a chance of relaxing or doing anything else normal couples do on their wedding night. A little wedding hate, the cover seems to say, might actually do the couple good.
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