Royal Wedding...

[Clanad]

Well... it's over. Ratings here in the U.S. indicate more Americans watched the proceedings than Brits. Polls also indicate the numbers of female Americans watching outnumbered the men by 15 to 1. In fact the polls indicate the wedding didn't draw the men as much as the little watched World Cup matches... so there must be a correlation between Royal Weddings and Soccer as far as the ho-hum factor to American men...

I watched Mrs. C out of the corner of my eye during the scene where the young couple exited Westminster (what happened to the missing "i"?) Abbey... Mrs. C teared up... why do women do that or are they mourning for the new bride?

[albaqwerty]

It's just an emotional thing :D

[wolf63]

I'm in Scotland - I walked from my flat to my work today and half expected some of the shops to have flags out.

But - no - one shop had a couple of balloons and a pub had some flags.

I don't know anybody who watched the wedding - apart from my brother who was 'encouraged' to do so by his wife, her mum, her mum's mum and his two daughters.

[alexanderd]

"More americans watched the proceedings than brits", not too surprising considering how many yanks there are compared to brits!!

[classylady60]

I agree with alba...perhaps most women show emotions more than men?

[welshlibranr]

The US is so much larger than the UK!................and so no wonder more folks watched the Royal Wedding!..............but we certainly celebrated and enjoyed it here in Britain!.............

[DaisyNonna]

More Americans than Brits. Americans are not into soccer,.
Who cares anyway? Our Royal Family. Mrs.C probably cried because she realised how she had missed out by marrying you.

[craft1948]

oooh Daisy...........

[Clanad]

Oooo... daisy, here's me looking for that vaunted British ironic humor in your posting... sadly, finding none... didn't get an invite to the wedding huh?

[ABerrant]

No missing "i" - minster and minister have separate and distinct derivations from Latin

Minster - monastery
Minister - servant (cf. magister - master)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minster_(church)

[Cowtipper]

I'm like any American male I suppose. We watch NASCAR for the crashes and soccer for the brawls. Both can be caught on sports highlights and you can skip all the boring parts.

[IggyB]

I always assumed the royals were just being maintained as a tourist attraction (and even left a bit sorry for them being trapped in something like the Truman show) so i would have expected the appeal of this wedding to be much higher outside the UK where their image would be most marketed to potential visitors. I'm still not sure who in this country loved the wedding or why as I have been unable to find one person out of my firends who would admit to anything but annoyance with the whole thing (though maybe they all sneaked back and sobbed buckets over kates princess playtime later).

Some women buy into the whole knight in shining armour thing and just see it as romance rather than a symptom of a state sponsored fraud committed by a dubious family with no redeemable features.

I say we need another referendum to sack the lot of them and seize their assets

[China Doll]

America has a lot more people than Britain so that's not suprising. I don't know why women cry at the weddings of strangers. I imagine they're just happy for them.

[jno]

apparently the power people reported the fourth highest power surge ever in the UK, behind two football matches and The Thorn Birds.