Today in royal wedding shenanigans: Kate Catherine and Wills are inviting their (“gorgeous”) exes to the wedding. The Obamas are (still) not invited. People not involved with the wedding are exercised about both these things.
We’d sort of thought the Obamas not being invited to the royal wedding was old news — and that no one regarded it as this major snub that heralded the end of the “Special Relationship” — but as of today, there are reports that Michelle and Barack are apparently “furious” and “offended,” as indeed we would be if people we didn’t know, and whose own aunts weren’t invited, snubbed us thusly. The thinking goes, I guess, that the Reagans were invited to Charles and Di’s thing. But let’s remember too — as long as we’re overthinking issues of protocol we don’t really understand — that the wedding pre-dated Reagan’s assassination attempt, and the security — and hassle — of having a POTUS anywhere has been seriously amped up since. Besides, Carla and Sarko weren’t invited either. As anyone who’s planned a wedding knows, heads must roll. In sum: those slavering for some kind of cross-pond catfight may have to content themselves with debating the merits of the continents’ respective versions of Skins.