The outfits of the guests were generally tasteful and royal-friendly.
In fact, under theatre censorship laws that were not abolished until 1968, British playwrights couldn't show two men in bed together, mention venereal disease, criticise the royal family, insult friendly foreign powers, or represent God.
These have spawned a decadent and west-friendly royal family that preside over a society where clerics run amok, where imams rant against infidels, religious minorities are oppressed, education is heavily slanted towards religion and where people are beheaded for sorcery.
I'm fortunate to be friendly with the royal family of Jordan, and they arranged for me to spend some private time at Petra, which is unbelievably spiritual.
Buzzfeed UK summed the whole coverage of the royal baby with an internet friendly pie-chart, listing how the web will react, including snarky pie charts about what everyone is saying about the royal baby.
Three big openings this year are the Kresten Royal Villas (thekrestenroyal.gr), the eco-friendly Marquise (lamarquise.gr) both near Rhodes Town, and Aquagrand in Lindos (aquagrand.gr).
Among his proudest boasts was that he had managed to maintain friendly relations with the royal family, especially with Diana, but also with Queen Elizabeth, whose official spokesman, noting his death, told reporters that "those in the royal household who knew him were extremely sad to learn of his death".
If the royal family wants to demonstrate its friendly intentions, releasing the women and children who are American citizens and being held against their will in Saudi Arabia by Saudi men would be a good place to start.
Check Your Head (1992), the Beastie Boys' first release on Grand Royal, featured a collection of radio-friendly rhymes that layered pop culture references over distorted funk instrumentation.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the center-right candidate whom polls now show to be slightly ahead of his calculatedly people-friendly Socialist rival, Ségolène Royal, appears intent on putting that proposition to the test.
(In fact, England played once more in royal blue in Peru in 1959, a friendly the English lost 4-1).
