Do you have a British accent? Did you participate in Princess Diana’s wedding, write a book about it, or watch it very intently on TV? Then you too can be a royal wedding correspondent! But of course, all Brits aren’t created equal. You’ll have to weave in references to tiaras and tea biscuits at every opportunity and exploit any vague connection you have to the royal family. Here’s a rundown of where you should tune in to get the most Brit for your buck.
Ben Fogle
Gig: Special Correspondent for NBC
Qualifications: He’s “NBC’s biggest coup” according to the New York Times. The British TV host traveled in Africa with Prince William for a TV special last year and most importantly, HE’S ATTENDING THE WEDDING. He plans to run from the service to a camera waiting outside Westminster Abbey to give us the blow by blow on what it was like to experience the ceremony we all just watched live. Oh, and we’d like to submit this picture of Fogle chatting with the Queen last year into evidence.
Rating: 10 out of 10 monocles!
India Hicks
Gig: ABC News
Qualifications: India Hicks is Prince Charles’ second cousin and 52nd in line to the throne, but apparently that only gets you a commentator job on ABC, not a wedding invite. Here she is on GMA discussing the mood on the morning of Diana’s wedding (it was exciting). You may want to take a look at the video, because she’s only going to retell the story 143 more times in the next few days.
Rating: 9 monocles
Colleen Harris
Gig: ABC News
Qualifications: Served as Press Secretary for Prince Charles from 1998 to 2003. Her
website notes she was “the first Black member of the Royal Household.” She also had senior posts in the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office, and the Cabinet Office, and worked for the World Health Organization. Now she gets to speculate about her former employers on American TV.
Rating: 7 monocles (one point off for being slightly too respectable for this list)
Jane Seymour
Gig: Entertainment Tonight
Qualifications: Yes, Dr. Quinn is a royal wedding correspondent, and not just because she’s an “AmeriBrit.” She tells USA Today, she’s been presented to the Queen several times, and “I’ve had dinner at the palace with the older royals, Edward and Prince Charles and Princess Diana, and I know Prince Edward. Fergie, I know very well. She’s an old buddy. … So I do know several members of the royal family. A lot of people know them as distant figures.” However, she hasn’t met Will and Kate! Extra points for having the same name as one of Henry VIII’s wives (and one who wasn’t beheaded at that.)
Rating: 6 monocles
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