As this adventure unfold, I’ll try to keep you posted on as many sites as I can where there’s coverage, including local media, etc.
For starters, here’s one from the Southern Daily Echo online in Southampton.
http://www.debretts.co.uk/etiquette/wearing_orders.html
Check this out, also from Echo. Click on the QM2 slideshow for some terrific photos of her arrival in Southampton, etc.
http://www.thisishampshire.net/hampshire/southampton/slideshow/
You of the gushing variety can see Mary Hart of Entertainment Tonight going on about the ship this week on ET, through Thursday’s naming ceremony.
http://et.tv.yahoo.com/tv/2004/01/06/maryhart_queenmary2/
Talk about being able to do things the rest of us won’t. AND, according to ET’s site, she’ll stand in for the Queen during a rehearsal of the naming ceremony.
Let me see – what did they call this in journalism school? Objective reporting – yes, that was it.
Better than Mary (not your mother, Your Majesty, she was one of the good ones), look for the news of the thing on such sites as these – um, and a few other tidbits. This comes courtesy of Marisa Lencioni, a Bellevue, Wash., native and employee of Amazon.com in the UK. She’s also my cousin, which convinced her to do the research for free. The comments, indeed, are hers.
Papers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news
'Auntie Beeb', as they call the government news service. Excellent news Web site.
Royalty:
http://www.royal.gov.uk
Their OFFICIAL site - you can view the Queen's 2003 Xmas TV speech here.
http://www.etoile.co.uk/Rnews.html
Unofficial 'fan' site with great daily links to news stories about the Royals in all the online papers - Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Observer, etc.
http://www.guardian.co.uk
Good lefty newspaper sure to be critical of the monarchy.
That’s it at the moment.
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