Saturday, April 30, 2011

Royal Wedding Tea Party

Do you know how hard it is to persuade an American to eat a biscuit called a 'digestive'? It was much easier to hand out the champagne.





On the way to school on Friday morning a tiara-bedecked Anna asked 'but why is this important?' - which to be fair was a good question. So I explained to her that she is half British, and that her future King had got married that morning. I told her that Britain was one of the oldest monarchys in the world, and contained the most famous Kings and Queens of history. I said that this was a day to be proud to be British - even half British - to be proud of our heritage. We talked about her being a quarter Danish, a little bit German, a little bit Irish, and half British, but mostly American.

She thought about it for a while and then said 'people can have a lot of halves, can't they?'.


Yes, that is a telephone-box cake stand.

 And just to remain truly humble to the occasion I will admit that this was the first time I realized that the Queen doesn't sing our National Anthem, 'God Save The Queen'. When they were panning across the congregation in Westminster Abbey, there she was tight-lipped and silent. 'Wow, she's not singing' I said. To which LK replied 'well, duh'.


6 comments:

Almost American said...

I remember someone commenting to me that they'd noticed that the King of Jordan didn't sing the US national anthem when everyone else did at his kid's American prep school graduation - well, duh, it's not HIS national anthem and he IS the king of another country!

Jane said...

Salivating at your display of chocolate digestives and party rings! Don't let my Handy Husband see those Bakewell tarts either!

radmegan said...

I love this!! By the way, I've awarded you the Versatile Blogger award- Thanks for being so fun to read! http://radmegan.blogspot.com/2011/05/catching-up-on-awards-and-photos.html

Laura said...

I think your Royal Wedding Tea Party is gorgeous, and Anna is radiant in her pretty dress and tiara! What a fun thing to do to celebrate. I am 100% American, but I visited the UK when I was a kid, and I fell in love with everything to do with tea! It's hard to duplicate here-- we don't have the same yummy butter or cream. But it's definitely something I want to do with my girls someday.

Julia said...

Wasn't it just LOVELY?

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