Royal (Wedding) Twats

I was watching a BBC segment on the family tree of Kate Middleton, the girl that married one of the princes. Harry, Larry, Barry, who gives a fuck. Anyway, they traced her family tree and showed that her family worked in coal mines or, as one of her cousins does now, works at a fish and chips shop. Oh, how quaint! They focused a lot on her grandmother, I believe, who reportedly had great drive and aspirations and "always strived for more in life" or something like that, and noted that she died 5 years ago -- but not before seeing where her granddaughter was then. With a prince. Oh, let me wipe the tears from my eyes.

So, grandma, your goal was to be rich without merit? It was literally to win the national royalty lottery? Is this what people still want in the 21st century?

Where IS her granddaughter now? What is the point in the royal family and most importantly, who gives a shit aside from old British women with collectible Princess Diana plates? Really, it may be a "rags to riches" story, but don't try to inject it with a bit of working class spirit, American dream stuff -- she's literally just fucking a prince. He saw her one day and thought, "I'd like to get inside of that", and because he's a prince with a yacht he now has, and that's about it. She's done nothing except open her castle gates and let a rich novelty inside and well, good for her, I guess... Why this is on the BBC is my main question, along with How anybody finds this to be heartwarming or interesting aside from Britain's board of tourism.

At least Belgium's just got a shoddy king that nobody cares about and the Manneqin Pis to show off. The Belgians seem to prefer more important things in life like making delicious beers and fries. Leave it to the Brits to romanticise the class differences like life really is some fairy tale and it's worth being in the gutter because some day, you too, might live in a castle paid for by the underlings of the country.

Wankers.