Canadian Autumn Kelly Marries Queen's Grandson

She is, but I wouldn't care about the royality unless a massive bomb killed them all or something important. I applaud them for not inbreeding though

this article on it is funny..

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=520565

British media sharpen teeth for Saturday’s Royal wedding to a (gasp) Canadian

LONDON - The British media are turning up their collective noses at the wedding on Saturday between Peter Phillips, Queen Elizabeth's first grandson, and Autumn Kelly that will bring a Canadian into the Royal Family for the first time.

Ms. Kelly is being described by the few newspapers paying close attention as an insincere, unsophisticated gold-digger from a "suburban backwater" - the mostly anglophone Montreal suburb of Pointe Claire.

Particular attention is being paid to her relatives, a group that includes an uncle in Moncton, N.B. who ran a strip bar, later turned into a gay bar.

Perhaps worse among some British aristocrats, her twin brother Chris is described as a bricklayer, known here as a "brickie."

Autumn's family, mingling today in the same Windsor Castle chapel with the Queen and Phillips' other highbrow relatives, will represent "a decidedly different calibre of guests" which "could cause a few raised aristocratic eyebrows," according to a recent brutal Mail on Sunday profile.

"In short, they are a collection of working-class individuals whose attitudes could well have some of their more blue-blooded fellow guests choking on their quails' eggs if they cross paths at the reception," according to the tabloid.

Sunday Telegraph columnist Melanie McDonagh, meanwhile, was a little more generous in describing the class differences between the two families.

"The encounter between the Queen and Autumn's relations promised to be good fun," Ms. McDonagh wrote.

"Her hairdresser mother, bricklayer brother and uncle who ran a strip club called the Platinum Dolls Show Palace ... will be good company, quite possibly better company than the family into which she is marrying."

Ms. Kelly shot back at her critics in an interview with a glossy celebrity magazine that reportedly paid the couple $1-million for exclusive access.

"It is insulting, but you simply can't let it get to you. Besides, most of it is rubbish," Ms. Kelly told Hello!

"At the end of the day, my family works for a living. They are not all doctors and lawyers, but I don't see anything wrong with what my brother, a builder, does. They all have jobs; they support their families and they are nice, normal people.

"If someone from a newspaper thinks that is not good enough . . . well, that is their issue, not mine."

Ms. Kelly, who plans to continue her job as an assistant to British media personality Sir Michael Parkinson, and Mr. Phillips, who works in promotions at the Bank of Scotland, have stressed that they both need to work. Mr. Phillips, however, is said to have been the beneficiary of a considerable portion of the late Queen Mother's fortune.

The nasty coverage is being condemned by those more sympathetic to the monarchy in Britain and Canada.

"They are being rather mean to her at the moment," said Majesty Magazine editor Joe Little, who attributes the coverage to the media's tendency to play a "spoiler" role when scooped by a rival.

Mr. Little said it's unfair to judge Kelly too hastily since so little is known about her.

Monarchist League of Canada president Robert Finch said dealing with the British media is a lose-lose proposition.

"One day they're complaining about the Monarchy being too formal, too crusty; the next day they're poking fun at someone's apparent lack of social status," Mr. Finch said in an e-mail interview.

Snooty British media critics shouldn't be surprised or offended that a citizen of a former colony would join the Windsor clan, he said.

"It's about time, really, when you consider Canada's always been a monarchy. After all, the House of Windsor is also the Canadian royal family, so it's refreshing to see an ordinary Canadian girl become part of the family."

Other major British newspapers have almost completely ignored the event, which royal-watchers say is logical given that Princess Anne relinquished any rights her children had to titles and the remuneration that comes with the responsibility to take part in public events.

"Because he has no title and does not carry out royal engagements, Peter Phillips rarely appears in the British media," Majesty Magazine's Little said.

"Despite being the Queen's eldest grandchild I (don't) think most people would be able to identify him in a line-up."

Mr. Finch says most Canadians are in the dark as well.

"Quite frankly, other than the interesting tidbit that the bride is a Canadian girl, there really isn't anything overtly significant in this wedding," he said. "I mean, Peter is 11th in line to the throne. The chances of him ever becoming King are so remote."

The British media are reporting that an estimated 350 guests, including Queen Elizabeth, will feast at the reception on potted Cornish crab, roasted rack of Welsh lamb, and coffee mousse accompanied by tiny sugared doughnuts for dessert.

The reception is being organized by Bentleys Entertainment, the Royal Family-connected company that organized the wedding receptions for David and Victoria Beckham and Elton John and his Canadian partner David Furnish.

Ms. Kelly will wear a wedding dress she reportedly paid the full price for - $4,000 - even though the designer, Sassi Holford, is getting enormous publicity out of the event.

There was scant media coverage in London papers Friday, with the Daily Mail mentioning it only in connection to a story about Prince William and his on-again girlfriend Kate Middleton. Prince William can't attend his cousin's wedding because of a commitment to be in Africa, so Kate will play a "stand-in" role.

"The fact she is doing so at a ceremony where the Queen and most of the senior royals are guests is the clearest signal yet that an engagement may come sooner rather than later," the Daily Mail speculated.

Yeah! They can't make up their minds. If Mr Phillips had married 'within his class', the Brit papers would have been full of 'the Royal Family is out of touch with the common man'. Since he married a working class girl whose brother is a bricklayer and whose uncle ran a strip club, they're, 'Omigod, whatever will the Royal Family think of these social climbers?' No pleasing 'em.

I say God save the Queen and welcome to the Canadian Royal Family, Mrs Phillips!