Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s wedding will feature a spectacular self-own
Princess Eugenie and – Google, Google – Jack Brooksbank are getting married today and we hope they are very happy together.
But we can’t help but wonder if the ceremony at Windsor Castle might feature a spectacular (and entirely appropriate, you might think) self-own after it was announced it would include this.
Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's wedding service will include an extract from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, read by the bride's sister Princess Beatrice: https://t.co/Ywr4kbe1kX By @PARoyal
— Press Association (@PA) October 11, 2018
And this is what people made of that.
Um… This quite strongly suggests they don't understand what the Great Gatsby is about. https://t.co/j0xiM6yH7x
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) October 11, 2018
That would be F. Scott Fitzgerald's deconstruction of the vacuity corruption and depravity of the rich and privileged elite?
Ooh the irony.— Mal (@LostChordof1963) October 11, 2018
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made
— Tomàs Roibeards (@TPGRoberts) October 11, 2018
I don't think it means what they think it means
— Natural Conker (@lisa_marriot) October 12, 2018
Maybe they see it as a sort of field guide for empty-headed rich people who have lots of parties?
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) October 11, 2018
Maybe they have a much richer sense of irony than you're giving them credit for.
— Robert Hanks (@RobertHanks) October 11, 2018
That's a bold take.
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) October 11, 2018
It's the only explanation I can think of that fits some of the hats.
— Robert Hanks (@RobertHanks) October 11, 2018
Presumably, Prince Andrew will be chipping in with an excerpt from Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution. https://t.co/OMVAKFVKzk
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) October 12, 2018
"‘[Daisy has] an indiscreet voice,’ I remarked. ‘It’s full of—’ I hesitated.
‘Her voice is full of money,’ he said…
That was it…. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it… High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl…"— Ben Morgan (@bmorganwrites) October 11, 2018
Do you think that's the bit they'll read out?
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) October 11, 2018
In my head
— Ben Morgan (@bmorganwrites) October 11, 2018
A novel about shallow rich people, some of whom are racist. Fitting https://t.co/BONKVq0b9I
— Rhiannon L Cosslett (@rhiannonlucyc) October 12, 2018
"Whenever you feel like criticising any one", my father told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had". https://t.co/3cqRVTntJB
— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) October 12, 2018
To conclude …
This has to be the weirdest choice for a wedding reading I have ever heard. Like doing a segment from Siegfried Sassoon or something. https://t.co/XPvNh2nOcs
— Katy Brand (@KatyFBrand) October 12, 2018