From: "Andy" <as-AT-spelthorne.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Filip4Mathilde
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 13:01:40 -0000




>At 10:21 +0000 06-12-1999, Andy wrote:
>....
>>>(Erik)PS. Since today, saturday, was the wedding of the prince Filip and
new
>>>princess Mathilde, for the belgian media there existed no abroad.
>>>It is still a long way to go for us.
>>
>>
>>And very nice she looked too in our newspapers. Far too good for him. I
hear
>>the crowds were much lower than expected - was this true and if so, what
are
>>they saying about it??
>>
>
>Well it was rather cold. Besides that it was an !-hour live show on almost
>all belgian channels. Luckily i missed most of it. I'm told it was rally
>boring.
>
>She may look nice, but we didn't get any proof until now that there is more
>to her. Since Prince Philip is very dumb, even a rather stupid princess
>will still be more clever than he'll ever be. So i guess she got it made.
>
>Erik


Avoiding royal events is bloody hard work. For Princess Margaret's wedding I
was in hospital having a plaster removed from my formerly broken leg by a
nurse watching the TV and carelessly ripping all the hairs off me. Princess
Anne's to Fog [so-called because he was thick and wet]Phillips , I was
hungover in bed so that was easy. Chazza and Di, I spent hours digging the
garden, while  neighbours kept saying "OOOh you should go in - she looks
lovely"; Fergie  and Andrew, I knocked down a wall, removed a toilet and
re-tiled half a kitchen; Diana's funeral I cycled along the Thames towpath
from Twickenham to Richmond, then over the bridge to Kew and Brentford, then
back again towards Ham Common over the ferry and home, and she still hadn't
been buried. These bouts of unaccustomed royal related exercise will kill me
soon.


Andy