[queen kate] wouldn’t it be nice

Queen Kate escaping the paparazzi outside her apartment Tuesday, her 25th birthday. How would you like a camera shoved in your face?

# Network ITN hired a lip reader to decipher her every utterance.

# Welcome to the world of the woman who might someday be Queen Katherine.

# Speculation that Will would pop the question was so intense that by 6 a.m. more than 50 photographers and camera crews were waiting outside her apartment in Chelsea.

# Woolworths is so confident that it’s designing commemorative royal wedding tchotchkes, from mugs to mouse pads. Store officials said the company "missed out" in 2005 during the two-month engagement of William's father and Camilla Parker Bowles - a multimillion-dollar slip that won't be repeated.

# Kate is a middle-class descendant of a coal-mining family, with an art history degree and conservative hemlines. She is as English as thickly buttered toast, and roughly as controversial.

# She doesn't smoke; she blushes. She shops with her mom (a former flight attendant who has an online business selling children's party supplies).

Can’t believe nourishing obscurity has jumped onto this bandwagon? This blog has a tacky history of doing this – the most recent was Princess Mary of Denmark and on this computer are countless photos of same. This blog, in other words, is totally and unashamedly unreconstructed.

Yo, Queen Kate!