Royal Wedding: “Most of all, it was disturbingly white.”

Contact Andrea Peyser here, the author of this hate-filled screed. –Ed

Off with their hats!

It was bigger than the Super Bowl and as tacky as a legion of Elvis impersonators. Most of all, it was disturbingly white.

Yesterday’s little wedding of William and Kate, a worldwide showcase of dreadful hats, fad diets and an unusually sour, lemon-yellow-clad queen, was designed to prove to the common man that the royals, finally, were down with the people.

But from the moment a triumphant Kate tiptoed with her dad onto the red carpet — yes, she walked an actual red carpet to and from the altar — I saw not a potential queen. Kate bore the look of a lithe human sacrifice. Or was she ready to faint from her starvation diet?

Her mouth smiled. But in her eyes — terror.
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2011-05-08