Canada royal tour: Prince William and Kate welcomed

vienna · 07-09-11, 05:49 PM

The local Los Angeles TV news have gone spare over the visit; last night a one hour Fox 10pm news show spent nearly 3/4 of its 1 hour boradcast either directly or indirectly reporting on the royals. They even included aerial footage of the U-Haul rental truck carring Kate's dresses and offered speculation on the designers based on the logos on the garment bags. (the aerial shots kind of reminded me of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant": "...and they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography.") One interesting and, to drivers in Los Angeles somewhat humorous, aspect was the royals motorcade having to make a last minute detour due to heavy traffic on the route to the British Counsul-General's residence (where the royals are spending the nights while here). Seems as if not even the royals can make auto-mad Angelenos give way to their royal majesty. Did learn that a polo match Will is particpating in will raise funds for he and his brother Harry's charity to aid returning military troops and their families, somewhere between $4 million to $7 million USD.

07-09-11, 05:49 PM	#11
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,712 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	The local Los Angeles TV news have gone spare over the visit; last night a one hour Fox 10pm news show spent nearly 3/4 of its 1 hour boradcast either directly or indirectly reporting on the royals. They even included aerial footage of the U-Haul rental truck carring Kate's dresses and offered speculation on the designers based on the logos on the garment bags. (the aerial shots kind of reminded me of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant": "...and they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography.") One interesting and, to drivers in Los Angeles somewhat humorous, aspect was the royals motorcade having to make a last minute detour due to heavy traffic on the route to the British Counsul-General's residence (where the royals are spending the nights while here). Seems as if not even the royals can make auto-mad Angelenos give way to their royal majesty. Did learn that a polo match Will is particpating in will raise funds for he and his brother Harry's charity to aid returning military troops and their families, somewhere between $4 million to $7 million USD.