Sunday, March 20, 2005

What will America make of Chuck & Camilla's Big Day?

The Guardian reports that the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles will be televised on April 8 ... or not quite. Apparently the civil part of the ceremony, held in Windsor town hall, will be strictly private, but there will also be a "religious service of prayer and dedication afterwards in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle," and this "will be broadcast to the nation and around the world." It will be interesting to see what U.S. audiences make of this wedding - if they pay any attention at all. This is certainly a million miles from Charles' first Big Day - when he married Diana Spencer in 1981. That occasion was an excuse for some serious fairytale-like awe generated by Americans for their quaint and wonderful British "cousins." Since then the whole issue of Charles' dalliances has become more than a little sordid. Will the U.S. media frame this Big Day as a tacky affair or will they fall into line with the whole royal pomp and circumstance/Ye Olde Englishe fairytale thing? And to what extent, if any, will the U.S. media take their cue from their "cousins" in the UK?

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