'Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be'*

(* Diana, Princess of Wales)

The New Yorker 2 May 2011

This magazine cover amuses me. Voyeurism is all the go at the moment with the wedding this Friday of a certain Miss Catherine Elizabeth Middleton to His Royal Highness Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter Master of Arts. The groom is second in the line of succession to the throne of sixteen independent states one of which is...cough, splutter...Australia.

Thank you linesmen, thank you ball boys.