Poor old P Charles changes wedding arrangements again.

[Becky]

Am I alone in wondering if this wedding is jinxed from the start? Firstly Charles and Camilla were going to wed in Windsor, until the Q and her advisors found that we could all go there for the next three years for our weddings. So they swapped venues to the registry office over the road. Where the Q wouldn't go. Now the Pope has died, so they have postponed the festivities for one more day. And yet, wasn't it one of their ancestors (Henry 8) who chucked out the Pope because he wouldn't condone a second marriage? Or a third or forth or fifth etc?
Am I missing something here, or is good old hypocrasy alive and flourishing among our royals?

Discuss, if you have any views or care a dam (can I write that?)

 

[snowleopard]

truth is that it was scheduled on TV opposite a coronation st. wedding. the pope was just an excuse.

 

[DJE]

Is the queen now the only VIP who is attending neither the funeral nor the wedding?

 

[kds]

"care a dam"

You can say it - but perhaps you mean "a damn".

Perhaps the poor b88888d is just rying to do the right thing ?

Ken

 

[jac]

So what chance do you think you or I would have in changing our wedding from a Friday to a Saturday in April in Windsor if we wanted to change it at short notice??

(I would have none being married already but you get the point)

 

[catmandoo]

Bet all the mug and tea towl manufacturers are going to have to start again

 

[halcyon]

Or look at it the other way, he's had to to cancel his wedding as he has to work now. He's got to go to a funeral of a Pope.

Brian

 

[benjenbav]

It's lucky that Windsor Registry Office had an available slot on Saturday, or maybe some would-be newly weds have had a call to say, dreadfully sorry but the registrar is unexpectedly unavailable.

 

[snowleopard]

the expression 'not give a dam' arises from the original expression 'not give a tinker's dam' which which was a bit of squashed dough a tinker would use to block a hole in a pot when repairing it with solder. it implied something of no value. so yes, 'dam' it is.

how the emphasis ended up on 'give' in the last line of gone with the wind is another story.

 

[claymore]

I feel quite sorry for them and the humbug they've had to endure and hope they have a long and happy life together.