{"id":17093,"date":"2013-04-10T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=17093"},"modified":"2013-04-10T03:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T10:00:20","slug":"royal-princess-godmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=17093","title":{"rendered":"A Royal Story Rich in Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who writes this stuff? Really. Shakespeare or Monty Python? The Royal biographer, perhaps…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A cruise ship is called the <\/span>Royal Princess<\/span><\/a>. At an elaborate "naming ceremony" the ship will be christened by a young woman who used to be a Royal Princess but is now a Royal Duchess. Okay, technically, she never was "Princess" Kate…but once she became a Royal she was the "People's Princess" and since has grown into the most beloved <\/span>\"\"<\/a>young woman <\/span>in Britain's <\/span>Royal Family<\/span><\/a> since the last People's Princess, whose name was Diana. Had she lived, Diana would today be Kate's mum-in-law. They remain linked by, among other things, the same engagement ring.<\/span><\/p>\n

It gets better.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Kate Middleton (aka, HRH Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge) officially becomes the new ship's Godmother, it will be at a ceremony on the docks of <\/span>Southampton<\/span><\/a>, which would be a short Tube ride from Buckingham Palace — if The Tube ran from Buckingham Palace to Southampton, which it doesn't. It's a fair hike in a carriage, the Royal Family's traditional mode of transportation, so we can assume that it will be a vehicle from the Royal Fleet that takes the Duchess to her appointed ship.<\/span><\/p>\n

This isn't her first rodeo, although the Brits would have another name for that. Two years ago, she christened a lifeboat at the Trearrddur Bay Lifeboat Station in <\/span>Anglesey<\/span><\/a>, Wales. It was her first official engagement after becoming a Royal, and you could say that pouring bubbly on that bow was a dry run, except that this one will be, too…at least for her.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because…<\/span><\/p>\n

The Royal Duchess is about to be another kind of mother — the real kind. As Shakespeare would have put it, she is "with child" and is scheduled to become the Other Mother less than six weeks after christening the Royal Princess. And if the script writers have their way, that will be another "Royal Princess."<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tHolland America Ryndam<\/a>
\n\t7 nights
\n\tSeptember 21, 2013
\n\tAthens<\/a> (return): Istanbul<\/a>, Lesbos, Ephesus<\/a>, Mykonos<\/a>, Crete<\/a>
\n\tInside: $799
\n\tCost per day: $114<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.hollandamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who writes this stuff? Really. Shakespeare or Monty Python? The Royal biographer, perhaps… A cruise ship is called the Royal Princess. At an elaborate "naming ceremony" the ship will be christened by a young woman who used to be a Royal Princess but is now a Royal Duchess. Okay, technically, she never was "Princess" Kate…but… Continue reading A Royal Story Rich in Irony<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,19,15],"tags":[912,72,86,35,1121,23,862,1226,30,151,957,543],"class_list":["post-17093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-duchess-of-cambridge","tag-holland-america","tag-holland-america-ryndam","tag-kate-middleton","tag-mediterranean-cruise","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-princess-cruises","tag-royal-princess","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}