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Yesterday Crown Princess Victoria married her long-term boyfriend.
She looked so beautifully happy, so radiant and full of joy.
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It was a lovely day all round, not least because she married the man that she loved, despite all the pressures of family, state and society.
One thing that makes these Royal events more fun to look at is the clothes. I'm not going to spend the rest of my evening posting pictures of royals (especially as I'm 5 pages away from finishing one of the best books i've read this year-more on that to come) but I did want to post this of Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau. Mabel has had a colourful Royal history-her husband gave up his place in the line of succession to marry her after the Dutch Parliament refused to support the marriage.
Apparently she's big in European NGO work (including War Child and something called Elders). She's also a muse of Viktor & Rolf (They did her bow-laden wedding dress) but that doesn't justify why she wore this to the wedding.
It's like something Old Gregg would wear: a sartorial downstairs mix up.
Now that Germany has won Eurovision (only its second victory and its first since 1982), its footballers have been put on notice.
After coming third on home soil in 2006 and losing to Spain in 2008, Germany has high expecations of its players. Especially after beating Australia 4-0 last weekend. The Serbs put a spanner in the works there (ouch Klose) and the final group matches are even more important than usual.
But enough about soccer, let's look at the latest attempt by the Germans to merge aspects of culture: Lena + vuvuzela + referring to Deutschland as 'Schland' = a man in a black dress with a wig singing about Germany playing in the world cup.
It's really funny, well mostly, and well-written. Apparently it's really popular too, having become (According to Deutsche Welle), the 'unofficial [German] World Cup Anthem.'
My goodness. Such a long time.
So much has happened since Norway won Eurovision last year. wow.
Let's look to this year, with Lena winning for Germany, for the first time since 1982.
I also really quite liked Moldova, especially the sax bit, made me feel like being a German jazz club in the early 80's (though that makes me sound rather like Howard Moon).
And, how could you fail to be moved (positively or otherwise) by the brilliant Milan Stankovic's Ovo je Balkan?
He's definitely an acquired taste (sartorially- he seems to have had a run in with his hairdresser)- but this was one of the catchiest songs of 2010.
So let's look to Germany 2011-will it be in Hamburg of Berlin?
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