Waiting For Cressida

Here in America, we don't know who our head-of-state will be three years from now. President (Hillary) Clinton? President (Jeb) Bush? President Biden? President Rubio? There's no way to know yet; we have a long slog of an election to get through first. In England it's different. Barring disaster, the Brits know who their head-of-state will be for most or possibly all of this century: King Charles, followed by King William, followed by King George. As I noted in an earlier post, if little Prince George lives as long as his great-grandmother the Queen, he'll still be the King of England in the year 2100. None of these Kings will have much real power, but they are part of something real, 1,000 years of kings and queens, even if it's all a little baffling to us here in the colonies.

I point all this out as a way of introducing an interesting story at The Daily Beast, which tries to understand the hoopla surrounding the current royal tour of New Zealand and Australia. The clip above is from a letter to The Times of London, just a little bit tongue-in-cheek, of course, but a nice low-key way of saying "enough, already" with coverage of Will, Kate and Prince George, and even as I keep an eye on the happenings in Australia, I'm also aware that in the end they're really just a nice, well-turned-out couple in their 30s, plus a cute baby, doing their duty, representing the Queen and staying out of trouble.

Things will be much more interesting, sartorially and otherwise, if Prince Harry actually marries current girlfriend Cressida Bonas, pictured below. Unlike Kate, who always looks well-put-together and, as my mother would say, "ladylike," Cressy's fashion sense is, shall we say, more creative. Even in the waity-Katey days we never saw Kate looking like this. And we know that Harry likes to shed his clothes and party every now and then. The thought of these two free spirits teaming up and setting out to see the world and meet the subjects is enough to make a royalty-watcher tingle, so c'mon Harry, find a nice ring, get down on one knee and pop the big question to Cressy. Your prim and proper family needs some hot new blood!