Prince Says “I really don’t know what I was thinking—we’re a terrible match, I don’t love her and never have, and, to be honest, I never really had any interest in being married in the first place,” announced the now unattached Prince William to a dead-silent British press corps. “People thought our wedding was some sort of fairy tale, but I assure you it was all just some ghastly ceremonial farce that got out of hand. I’m just relieved it’s over, frankly. And I’m glad I’ll never have to see that awful woman again.” Prince William then told the assembled reporters, “Well, see you all later,” smiled, and walked back into Buckingham Palace.
After a glorious and inspiring royal
wedding we are back to earth with a bump. Prince William has been
encouraged by advisers to wade into the Fifa corruption row. And his
comely sister-in-law, Pippa Middleton, has been putting herself about,
perhaps unwisely, as a guest of the car manufacturer Peugeot in Paris.
I
doubt Prince William is to blame for his ill-judged intervention when
he recommended that Fifa postpone its presidential elections. As
President of the Football Association he issued a statement on Tuesday
that was highly critical of the organisation. He ‘considered the
transparency of the international governing body to be integral to the
good governance of the game,’ according to Clarence House.
He
is right about transparency, of course. Ask 100 people, and 99 would
agree Fifa is a disgrace. But is it right for the future King of England
to involve himself so openly in an international public dispute? And a
dispute, moreover, from which the villain of the piece, Sepp Blatter,
the president of Fifa, was bound to emerge victorious by being
re-elected yesterday, thereby making the Prince’s intervention look
silly and futile.Source: