Edith in a regal pose. I don’t think Queen Alexandra or Mary were fashion icons to the young back in the early part of the 20th century. But maybe some of the Princesses Royal were.
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You know, there is a test for Alzheimer’s, supposedly, where you are given 7 words and asked to repeat them and your ability to do this predicts whether you will or will not get Alzheimer’s. Well, I tested myself, checking out the most frequently typed in terms in Google News for this day for each letter and, hmm. I don’t want to talk about it. My father died of Alzheimer’s.
And this particular exercise is easier as the words aren’t random. But these ‘terms’ in the Canadian Google News are mostly the names of Russian Hockey players, or other Hockey Players, so that’s a thing in my favour. I only recently learned who Crosby was. Sydney! (I just forgot his name, too.)
Nabokov was the most looked up term for the letter N. “Gee,” I thought, “Maybe Canadians are getting erudite?” Or maybe the CRTC banned Lolita? (Or did Hang ‘em High Harper nail and jail someone for reading that iconic but somewhat pervy book on the Go Train?) But no, it’s a hockey player. Surprise!
Of course, it’s early morning and I haven’t had my coffee yet. So maybe that’s why I’m slow on the uptake.
I feel very fuzzy-brained. I’ll try this again in the afternoon after having exercise, and eaten a sprig of sage and some peppermint tea and taken my Omega-3.
At least I know who Kate Middleton is. I’ve been writing a lot about the Royal Family in the Flo in the City Blog.
How I’ve finally got my sovereigns for the 20th century straightened away: Edward VII, George V; (David) Edward VIII, (Albert) George VI, Elizabeth II.
All because I watched the movie the King’s Speech.
Actually, at Christmas I was discussing that movie with my son’s girlfriend and actually asked out loud, “Now, who was the King before George V?” and she replied…”Ah,Edward? It was the Edwardian Age, after all.” Well, duh.
A short age, but an important one. An era of incredible change – and that is what my website
http://www.tighsolas,ca/ and this Flo in the City blog is about. (I’m writing a book about the era based on family letters.) This line of inquiry, unfortunately, will not appeal to anyone looking up hockey players, so finding the most popular news items of the day and typing them into this blog won’t attract the right readers to this blog.
But it will test my aging mental faculties. Alas.
Kate Middleton, a commoner, is going to be Queen Catherine. They’ll probably end up calling her Kate the Great. I hope the Press leaves her alone and doesn’t pick her looks apart, until she stops eating entirely. Slim hope of that, I guess. Maybe that’s the price you pay to be a princess, or to be a famous woman in any field.
No matter what a woman does or achieves, she is always judged on her looks. A friend once asked me “Why is Oprah so fat?”
Queen Elizabeth has earned an exemption, but she was very pretty young woman so the press corps could write ‘beautiful princess’ without holding their hands over their mouths and snickering.
I recently read a blog about the suffragettes in England and their close ties with the department store Selfridges, which was brand new. Apparently, the suffragettes were very fashion conscious. (Well, they sure knew how to use the ‘new media’ which was VISUAL, film and photographs. 60′s protesters copied a lot from their books.)
(I’ve written on this blog about how the local Press treated visiting British suffragettes: The fawned over them if they were ‘attractive’ women. And remember when the garment workers went on strike in 1912 and marched through the streets of Montreal, how the press report said that the girls were generally well-dressed, and “some even pretty.” So it goes.)
Anyway, the news media is already promoting The Royal Nuptials, The Big Event, which, I suspect, is mostly about bringing much needed foreign cash into Great Britain. It’s pretty dire over there compared to here, and it’s not great here. I was actually thinking of visiting in the Spring, but now I think I will pass. Can you imagine the prices?
Edith in a regal pose. I don’t think Queen Alexandra or Mary were fashion icons to the young back in the early part of the 20th century. But maybe some of the Princesses Royal were.
