Title: Cameron drums up support for royal wedding street parties as figures show north-south divide
By Gordon Rayner and Nigel Bunyan
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Summary of article
When Lady Diana Spencer was going to marry the Prince of Wales in 1981 there had been tens of thousands applications for street parties. The people wanted to celebrate the wedding. However, now there are only 4000 applications for street parties for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Prime Minister Cameron wants to increas the amount of parties.
Mr. Cameron says that there aren’t any rules to having a street party and that everyone can celebrate if they want to. By saying this he wants to promote the street parties in
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My opinion
I think it's wonderful that there are people who want to celebrate the wedding of the Prince. Of course not everyone wants to do this with a street party. Even though there haven't been a terrible lot of applications for street parties, this doesn't mean no one is celebrating! When we look at our society today, I think these parties might not be a part of it anymore. Not as big a part as it was in 1981 when the Prince of Wales married. This would explain the big difference between tens of thousands street parties in 1981 and the 4000 in 2011.
So the prime minister actually says that there are not enough people excited over the upcoming royal wedding. A bit sad actually. Prince William and his Kate to be are not as popular as his mother apparently.
ReplyDeleteAye, that’s really sad for them. I always thought William and Kate where very popular… But I do understand they are not as popular as Lady Diana Spencer was.
ReplyDeleteWe’ll have to wait and see whether the people are going to celebrate their wedding.