Daily Mail - The official guest list for the Royal Wedding has been revealed - and it is raising eyebrows. While Barack Obama and his wife Michelle failed to make the cut, the list of colourful characters includes a U.S. banker whose family funds right-leaning blog Politico and who was criticised for his friendship with Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Joe Albritton will join newlyweds Prince William and Kate Middleton for their wedding breakfast at Buckingham Palace. Some 650 people have been invited. Of those, 50 have been invited by the Queen, 250 by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, and 100 by the Middletons. William and Kate themselves have invited 250. The names include everyone from friends and family to the great and the good. But by far the most surprising are those who have been invited by Prince Charles. Along with Mr Albritton, he has also invited a Transylvanian count, a Nazi's nephew, and a Kazakh tycoon.
Are we about through dissecting this Royal Wedding List and the fact that the Obama's were snubbed? Can this wedding just happen already and be over with, soon.
I totally don't get why people are making a big deal about the Obama's not being invited to this. Basically by not getting invited all they did was save Barry from sending back the awkward "no" RSVP. I mean it's not like they know them well, and it's not like this kid is even next in line to be king. He's got to wait out his Dad, who has been a momma's boy Prince for like 30 years now.
Plus this country is in a financial crisis, how do you think it would play if the First Family boards an international flight to Buckingham Palace, gifts in hand for some foreign Prince they barely know? And it's not like you can just toss 150 bucks in an envelope and call it a day, this is the Royal Wedding. We're talking about a minimum of Fabrege Eggs and a vacation home in the Keys, or at least some sort of time share contract in the White House.
