re: the royal wedding

I forgot it was even happening, which I suppose would have been impossible to do if you were in the UK with a day off of work and every newspaper in sight talking about it constantly.

Maybe it’s just that we’re all 29 years older than for the last one, but somehow this one felt a touch more hollow, even though William must be more popular than Charles was even then. Whether this has more to do with the continued erosion of royalty or of weddings as institutions in the past three decades, it’s hard to say.

I do remember the Charles/Diana wedding pretty clearly, and seem to remember it being fairly stiff and awkward. But I was only 13 and may have been off the mark.