This unique fountain has origins date back to ancient Roman times, when it served as the terminal point of the aqueduct Aqua Virgo – which. translates as Virgins Water, deriving from an old Roman legend, which states that a young maiden told a group of Roman soldiers about the source of the water.

They told Emperor Augustus. who immediately ordered an aqueduct be built – 22 kilometer long – specifically lead the water to his thermal baths, scenes from this legend dominating the the upper level of the fountain  in bas-relief. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the fountain fell into a ruinous state,  out of action for almost a 1,000 years, before Pope Nicholas V in 1453 ordered its restoration, after which the name was changed to  the Aqua Vergine aqueduct.

It was during this restoration that the Pope ensured the Roman custom of the endpoint of an aqueduct being a fountain was maintained, insisting that a small, simple basin be built as the terminal point. It was during the reign of Pope Urban VIII that the fountain was thought not dramatic enough, so that famous sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini was about to become involved when the Pope died and changes were put off.

Planning began again, 100 years later, for a new fountain on the site, under Roman architect Nicola Salvi. Inspired by the sketches left by Bernini, he took 30 years to finish the fountain before it stood completed in year 1762, becoming known then as the Trevi fountain, not only the  largest Baroque fountain in Rome, but highly regarded as the most beautiful one in the old city. 

Perhaps one of most striking features of this fountains is the fact that it stands a massive 25 m tall by 20 m wide, built in a small square that makes the size even more imposing to the onlooker. Theme of the fountain is both the taming of, and the power thundering water, tumbling over rocks and petrified vegetation, in what some call the greatest show you can ever look at it.  

Dominated by a several large statues, central to the fountain is the Roman god of the water and the seas, Neptune – also known as Poseidon in Greek mythology – standing in a large shell chariot, pulled by two sea horses, one of which is calm and submissive, the other is impatient and restless, symbolizing the fluctuating moods of the oceans.

The horses are guided by tritons, mermaid-like creatures forming the marine divinities escort of Greek mythology, adding add symbolic meaning to the fountain – the contrast in mood and poses – as well as providing symmetrical balance.

Any visitor will see lots of coins, stemming from the tradition of throwing a coin into the fountain to ensured a future return to Rome, one modern slice of folklore saying that throwing two coins into the water leads to new romance, while three ensure either marriage or divorce. Sources estimate that 3,000 coins get thrown in daily, collected each morning and donated to charity. The Trevi Fountain is much more than just a fountain – a fantastic work of baroque art, regarded as a true jewel of water and stone, and a hugely popular tourist destination.

There are bags of argument belletrist that we accelerate every day. Some of these argument belletrist are absolutely important as we accelerate them to the bodies we assignment with or to important bodies who we assignment for but some of these argument belletrist are acclimated alone to break in blow and to let the added being apperceive that no amount how active you are you consistently anticipate of them and you accomplish abiding that you break in touch. Bodies in antiquarian times had a absolutely adamantine time blockage in blow with people, alike the ones that they admired a lot and it balked them a lot as able-bodied because best of the time they were not able to get a lot of important account about them at the able time. Not just wishing someone on any event via mobile phones or emails are good idea but i would like to introduce a new idea to surprise someone on any special event; gather people in a chat room and bring the birthday boy there and wish him by spamming alot of emotions and ascii texts.

Advice is a actual important allotment of our lives and after communicating we cannot accept advantageous relationships with anyone. Bodies charge to accept anniversary added in adjustment to get forth and if they will not allocution they will never apperceive how to collaborate after which they will be socially awkward. Bodies charge to accept acceptable advice abilities to survive in this apple but due to the actuality that some bodies are shy they alternate while talking to added people, these bodies are not adequate with acclamation big acquisition and they break abroad from crowds. Argument belletrist accept apparent this botheration completely. They acquiesce you to abide in acquaintance with others while you don”t accept to appear face to face with anyone.

It is additionally a actual alert way of blockage in acquaintance with anyone as through calls and belletrist a being becomes actual prominent. Bodies like this as it gives them aloofness and allows them to break in acquaintance all the time. There are several kinds of belletrist that are altered in a faculty that the sender does not usually writes them but copies them from altered websites or books that he likes. Bodies demand to be specific back they accurate their animosity and this is the best way to do so. Romantic text messages are actual accepted in this attention as bodies consistently charge a lot of argument belletrist to acknowledge their constant love to their beloved.

These argument belletrist acquiesce them to do so and the can be absolutely at affluence with the absolute book as it does not crave them to be present in the accomplished situation. Funny messages are acclimated to accomplish bodies beam and these too are actual accepted abnormally amid friends. Bodies advanced these belletrist the best and additionally they are the ones that are best searched for. These argument belletrist amount annihilation but absolutely they advance smiles everywhere. Birthday Quotes are consistently appropriate and that is why we booty a lot of affliction while basic them. It is absolutely a appropriate way for the being so he or she expects a lot of wishes and bodies accomplish abiding that he/she receives a lot of belletrist too.

Superstitions and Old Wives’Tales have been around since time immemorial. Superstitions are seen as beliefs with no logical or sound foundation and Old Wives’Tales, once based in truth, are now considered merely unproven, time-honored beliefs. Read on to find out if some of your beliefs might actually fall under the categories of Superstitions or Old Wives’ Tales. Following a description of each is a list of some of the more popular Superstitions and Old Wives’ Tales.

What Are Superstitions?

Some of the superstitions we hold are just for fun (e.g. an itchy palm means you’ll have luck or you have money coming your way) while others can be so deep-seated that they affect the way a person lives his or her life. For example, the superstition that if a person doesn’t get out of the bed on the same side he or she got in on, they will suffer bad luck, could lead to a compulsive need to always get into and out of bed on the same side. Why tempt fate?

Superstition can be defined as a belief in  supernatural or mystical causes for certain events or occurrences. In other words, certain things happen (good luck or bad luck) because of some uncanny, unexplainable, magical intervention, events or occurrences that could be described as nothing short of miraculous because there was no other way of explaining them. During the “Age of Enlightenment in the 1700s, Christian doctrine scorned belief in miracles, reducing them to superstitions and equating belief in miracles with belief in magic, which was considered sinful. In fact the Catechism of the Catholic Church deems superstition to sinful because it demonstrates a lack of faith in Divine Providence, which breaks the First Commandment.

While some superstitions may be suggest or represent religious practices (Voodoo for instance), most apply to views and customs about good or bad luck, the prophesying on the prospects of things that will happen based on previous events that are totally unconnected, and to spiritual beings.

A List of Superstitions

Bad Luck

·         Friday, the 13th, an unlucky day

·         The number 13

·         Breaking a mirror, which brings bad luck for 7 years

·         Black cats crossing one’s path

·         Walking under a ladder

·         Opening an umbrella inside a house or building

·         Singing at the table

·         Sleeping on a table

·         A bird coming in the window

·         Refusing to kiss under the Mistletoe

·         Goldfish in the house

·         Chasing someone with a broom

·         Dropping a dishcloth

·         Getting out of bed on a different side than you got in on

·         Rocking an empty rocking chair

·         killing an albatross brings bad luck to a ship as well as its crew and passengers

·         Wearing an opal when it’s not your birthstone

·         Giving someone a  purse or wallet without placing some money in it

·         It is bad luck to leave a house through a different door than one you entered through

Reversing Bad Luck

·         Turn 7 times in a clockwise circle

·         Crossing your fingers

·         Standing in a circle protects you from harm

·         Knocking twice on wood

Protection

·         Garlic protects from vampires

·         Wedding veils protect brides

Good Luck

·         An itchy palm

·         finding a horseshoe

·         Tossing salt over your shoulder

·         Saying “God Bless You” after a sneeze

·         Rabbit’s foot

·         Finding a 4-leaf clover

·         Fate is written in the stars

·         Wearing clothes inside out

·         Wearing your birthstone

·         Beginners always have good luck

·         A cricket in the house

·         Lock of hair from baby’s first hair cut

·         Gold fish in a pond

·         Wearing new clothes on Easter

·         Finding a penny and picking it up

Money and Wishes

·         There’s a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow

·         Blowing out the birthday candles in one breath means you’ll get your wish

·         When breaking a wishbone, the person with the larger piece gets his or her wish

·         Itchy palms mean money

The Prospect of Things to Come Based on Unconnected Events

·         An apple a day keeps the doctor away

·         If you step on a crack, you’ll break your mother’s back

·         Eating fish will make you smart

·         Toads cause warts

·         When the soles of your feet itch, you’ll be taking a trip

·         If a dog howls, a death will occur

·         A sailor who wears a gold earring can’t drown

·         Animals can talk at midnight on Christmas Eve

·         Dropping a fork means a woman will visit, dropping a knife means a man will visit, and dropping a spoon means a child will visit

·         Shivering means someone is casting a shadow on your grave

·         A bride wearing something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue during the wedding ceremony guarantees a happy marriage.

·         Washing a car guarantees it will rain

·         Planning a picnic or other outdoors outings requiring a sunny day will also guarantee rain.

·         Warm hands mean a cold heart, whereas cold hands mean a warm heart

What Are Old Wives Tales?

In the olden days, way before modern technology and modern medicine evolved into what it is today, women were the keepers of medical wisdom which was passed on from generation to generation. Women – especially the Old Wives who were the town’s mothers, grandmothers, midwives and healers – were responsible for delivering babies, healing sick family members and neighbors, were considered experts in nutrition, experts in children, folk medicine, herbs and even death.

Many of the Old Wives’ Tales developed from the wealth of their experience. Some of the Old Wives’ Tales, though were based in superstition, such as the Tale that eating bread crusts would make your  hair curly. Many Old Wives’Tales developed from folk cures for every day ailments (toothaches, colds), or were aimed at teaching about things like deathand natural life changes (explaining pregnancy to kids, beginning of menstruation, or menopause), or to teach children about which behaviors to avoid by associating those behaviors with dire consequences (if you touch a toad you’ll get warts).

Whole books could be written about the Old Wives’ Tales concerning pregnancy (e.g. if you carry the baby high it’s a girl, but if you carry it low it’s a boy). There are way too many pregnancy related Old Wives’ Tales to go into here, but some of the other aspects of life still offer up some really intriguing examples. When reading through this list, you may discover that many of these Old Wives’ Tales sound suspiciously like superstitions.

A List of Old Wives Tales

·         Eating bread crusts will make your hair curly

·         Don’t swallow gum  because it takes seven years to digest

·         Plucking one gray hair means two more will grow back in its place

·         Touching toads gives you warts

·         Don’t swim for an hour after eating, or you’ll get stomach cramps

·         Eating carrots improves eyesight

·         Eating chocolate cause acne

·         Carrying an acorn will bring good luck and long life.

·         Placing acorns on the windowsill will keep lightning out of the house.

·         Ring bells provide protection from demons because the noise scares them.

·         If the first calf born during the winter is white, then the winter will be particular severe.

·         Itchy or ringing right ear means someone is saying something nice about you, while if it occurs in the left ear, someone is saying something bad.

·         Cutting fingernails on Friday or Sunday is bad luck.

·         Save, burn or bury fingernails clippings to prevent bad luck.

·         Anyone dying on Good Friday will go straight to Heaven.

·         Hanging a horseshoe above a door  brings good luck to whomever lives there.

·         Don’t hang a horseshoe upside down, or all the luck will run out.

·         If your nose itches it means (1) a fool is going to kiss you, (2) you will get a visitor – the right nostril means a female visitor and the left nostril means a male visitor.

·         Jogging is bad for you because it jumbles up your insides.

·         Inserting knitting needs into a ball of yarn brings bad luck to the person who uses the item made from that yarn.

·         Catching a falling leaf on the first day of autumn guarantees you won’t get sick all winter.

·         When boiling milk, don’t let it run over the side of the pan or it’ll bring bad luck.

·         Wishes made over burning onions will come true.

·         Using the same pencil for studying and taking tests will ensure good grades, because the pencil remembers the answers.

·         Dropping a pair of scissors means your lover is seeing another behind your back.

·         Dropping an umbrella on the floor of a house means that someone in that house will soon die.

·         Knocking on wood 3 times keeps evil spirits from stealing your good luck.

·         The number of times that the lines on your palms form an “X” indicates the number of children you will have.

·         The number of ribbons a bride breaks when opening her wedding gifts indicates the number of children she will have.

·         Covering your mouth when yawning, prevents the soul from leaving your body.

·         Walking around in bare feet will give you worms.

·         Wearing shoes will help a baby learn to walk faster.

·         If a woman who’s just given birth gets caught in the rain, she will catch a “baby cold” which will cause her death and leave her baby motherless.

·         Hold your breath when driving by a cemetery or you will breathe in the spirit of someone who recently died and was buried there.

·         If the eyes of a dead person are left open, he or she will find someone to take with them.

·         Cranberry juice keeps your kidneys and urinary tract healthy and either fights or prevents urinary tract infections.

·         Don’t cross your eyes, they’ll stuck that way.

·         Telling lies will (1) make your nose grow longer, (2) cause a pimple on your tongue, (3) cause a sore on your lips.

·         Don’t drop a needle, you might step on it and get an infection.

·         Feed a cold and starve a fever.

·         Starve a cold and feed a fever.

(I’ll leave it to you to decide which one those to follow.)

·         If you go outside with a wet head, you’ll catch a cold.

·         Cracking your knuckles will cause arthritis.

·         Covering your mouth when sneezing will prevent your soul from escaping

·         Spicy foods cause ulcers

·         Watching too much TV or sitting too close to the TV will make you blind.

·         A watched pot never boils.

If you want to read on about pregnancy related Old Wives’ Tales, check out this website:

List of 51 pregnancy old wives tales: Your baby’s sex revealed!

http://www.hisboyscanswim.com/658/list-of-51-pregnancy-old-wives-tales-your-babys-sex-revealed

Resources

Travis, Wendy. Life Script. 10 Common Superstitions.

http://www.lifescript.com/soul/spirit/beliefs/10_common_superstitions.aspx?gclid=CITPj4C9h68CFVO9tgodwBCpBQ&trans=1&du=1&ef_id=3FdOP%40Ng%40mMAAExE%3a20120327161628%3as

Wikipedia. Superstition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition

Wikipedia. Old Wives’ Tale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_wives%27_tale

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Common Superstitions.

http://www.csicop.org/superstition/library/common_superstitions/

Ford, Allison. Divine Caroline. Old Wives’ Tales: Fact or Fiction?

http://www.divinecaroline.com/22360/72592-wives-tales-fact-folklore

The Longest List of the Longest Stuff at the Longest Domain Name at Long Last. The A-Z of Old Wives’ Tales.

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/tales110.html

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Birthday greetings are another form of prayer – they inject love and good wishes. Early morning today, the first text message I received was from my wife and children said, “Sweetheart, happy birthday. We love you. We miss you – anong handa mo?”

When I checked my email box and Facebook some birthday greetings from my virtual friends attracted my eyes such as:

• Hello ppruel: Best wishes on your birthday and throughout the coming year from your friends at The Royal Forums. May this birthday be the beginning of a year filled with happy memories, wonderful moments and shining dreams. Happy Birthday!
• Hello pruelpo: We at Kompas Forum would like to wish you a happy birthday today!
• Wishing you from the core of my heart “HAPPY BIRTH DAY”. God bless you along with all family members. Aslam FB friend.
• I won’t be around at the weekend – so here’s a birthday wish for Sunday – HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Love Sheila XX FB friend.
• Have a Blessed Happy Birthday my friend. Jack Wellman FB friend.
• Dude, God blesses you with another fruitful year.. Donald Pagulong FB friend.
• Happy Birthday wish you all the best Sulaiman AbdulRahman FB friend.
• Happy 75th birthday kabz..lol Jimmy Cortez FB friend.
• Happy Happy Birthday Mr. Paul…Pakuha n ng sadiki…hehehe Pergis FB friend.
• Happy Birthday Sir! Bling Triond FB friend.
• Happy Happy Birthday to you Collin Fong Jr. FB friend.
• Happy bday,may u hav more bday 2 come,,god bles u always, Gina FB friend.

As of this writing already I received birthday greetings of almost 100 so far at Facebook alone and still counting from my virtual friends – for their good wishes and prayers. They are my friends, my gifts and my treasures!

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A very happy new year

Hello friends, another end of the year is here again, on the other hand, this is beginning of a new era. I do remember the end of the year 2010; I was here with you and enjoying the same. This year is almost gone now and shall be, forgotten soon. Oh, that is so natural, we never remember the goners, but some things and people do not fall in that category. They always remain with you.

I am so sad when I do not see some of my good friends around, I know they are active and doing fine, but not with us on this site. I think this place does not make them feel comfortable here and they find some other places more attractive. I too thought the same for some time and was away, this site is so addictive that I could not resist but come back to enjoy your company.

As I see some of the friends doing well here and enjoying, I miss them all the more who were here and we were having all the fun. However, let us look forward and to the positive part of the story as this is natural, some go and some others join.

We can see some wonderful people have come and joined us, I am sure they will give us a good company and will try to fill the place.

In the last, I wish you all my best wishes for the year 2012.

May the blessings of God be, showered on you and your loved ones.

Wishing you and your family a very happy and prosperous new year.

Thank you all, for a being so cooperative and wonderful.

This one comes on the radio and I cry every time.

To remind us the joy of Christmas changes as we grow and to always hold on to the joy we feel.

I believe in Santa(in spirit anyway) and this is exactly what I would wish for.

Did HIS mother have a clue what her baby would come to mean to the world?

An old school Reminder of what the Christmas season is really a celebration of.

The way I wish it could be.

What I wish for all of us for the season

And I know this isn’t a religious song but it is based on a real cease fire on Christmas eve between Allied and German troops (snoopy wasn’t really there).And it’s just plain fun!!!!

                    HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF MY READERS,I HOPE THIS WARMS YOUR HEART.

Now I do want to mention that while Karen is a Christian, I am not, while Karen celebrates Christmas as the birth of Jesus, I do not. I do not celebrate Christmas for the same reason as Karen but this does not mean that I have to be cruel to her and insult her reasons for celebrating. And before you ask… I do celebrate “Christmas” with the same traditions that predate Christianity – the tree, the gifts, and so forth, I just do not associate it with the birth of Jesus.  If somebody wishes me a Merry Christmas, I thank them, why would I mad or insulted?

But not too many years ago I was yelled at while working in a retail store, I said “Happy Holidays” to a lady customer and she freaked out, you would have thought I charged her too much for her purchases. What is so wrong with saying Happy Holidays? It’s not like I said “Happy Saturnalia“* or called her ugly.

Just because a person is not the same religion as you should not be any reason you cannot send them greetings?

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Why cant we wish happy Diwali to East Indians and others that celebrate it? I did earlier this year after eating at an East Indian restaurant. I also wished Eid Mubarak to my internet Muslim friends earlier this year – and why not? I would wish people happy Kwanzaa too if I knew anyone that celebrated it.

Just because we do not share the same religion does not mean we should be so ignorant to bash somebody for offering us good wishes.

I still wonder why that lady was so cruel to me on that day when all I did was wish her happy holidays? Perhaps she is happier off being miserable.

*Saturnalia is one of the ancient December 25 holidays that predated Christianity, in which trees were decorated, gifts were exchanged, and the ancient pagans welcomed back the return to the sun in the sky, and celebrated the virgin birth of the sun God.

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For Santa, these are the most sacred moments before he takes off on his annual world mid-night gift giving journey.  So each Christmas eve way up high amongst the stars Santa Claus in his sleigh has seven minutes of sacred blessings and wishes he bestows upon the earth at seven minutes to mid-night.   It is a time of silence for all the reindeer as they blow energy into the wishes and blessings at the exact moment they are spoken by Santa Claus. 

Santa invites families and people from all around the world to join him in these sacred moments by saying the following blessing and wish for each nation at the exact time of 7 minutes to mid-night each Christmas Eve.  Santa always ends each nations blessing and wish by blowing energy with a kiss into the blessings.  Here they are exactly as they are said:

Africa                             
Santa’s Blessing & Wish for this Nation:
“Great wishes are scattered beneath this starry sky to all our brothers and sisters on this eve of the birth of new beginnings.  These seeds of hope, great dreams for unity, peace and freedom are too the seeds of remembrance to live in gratitude, to embrace together in peace, love, forgiveness and acceptance. The seeds to move the human race forward and connect all people hand in hand together as one! Take hold new seedlings, embed and grow in the hearts of each one young and old beneath this starry sky this night!”

Antarctica
Santa’s Blessing & Wish for this Nation:
“Great wishes are scattered beneath this starry sky to all our brothers and sisters on this eve of the birth of new beginnings.  These seeds of hope, great dreams for unity, peace and freedom are too the seeds of remembrance to live in gratitude, to embrace together in peace, love, forgiveness and acceptance. The seeds to move the human race forward and connect all people hand in hand together as one! Take hold new seedlings, embed and grow in the hearts of each one young and old beneath this starry sky this night!”

Asia
Santa’s Blessing & Wish for this Nation:
“Great wishes are scattered beneath this starry sky to all our brothers and sisters on this eve of the birth of new beginnings.  These seeds of hope, great dreams for unity, peace and freedom are too the seeds of remembrance to live in gratitude, to embrace together in peace, love, forgiveness and acceptance. The seeds to move the human race forward and connect all people hand in hand together as one! Take hold new seedlings, embed and grow in the hearts of each one young and old beneath this starry sky this night!”

Australia
Santa’s Blessing & Wish for this Nation:
“Great wishes are scattered beneath this starry sky to all our brothers and sisters on this eve of the birth of new beginnings.  These seeds of hope, great dreams for unity, peace and freedom are too the seeds of remembrance to live in gratitude, to embrace together in peace, love, forgiveness and acceptance. The seeds to move the human race forward and connect all people hand in hand together as one! Take hold new seedlings, embed and grow in the hearts of each one young and old beneath this starry sky this night!”

Europe
Santa’s Blessing & Wish for this Nation:
“Great wishes are scattered beneath this starry sky to all our brothers and sisters on this eve of the birth of new beginnings.  These seeds of hope, great dreams for unity, peace and freedom are too the seeds of remembrance to live in gratitude, to embrace together in peace, love, forgiveness and acceptance. The seeds to move the human race forward and connect all people hand in hand together as one! Take hold new seedlings, embed and grow in the hearts of each one young and old beneath this starry sky this night!”

North America
Santa’s Blessing & Wish for this Nation:
“Great wishes are scattered beneath this starry sky to all our brothers and sisters on this eve of the birth of new beginnings.  These seeds of hope, great dreams for unity, peace and freedom are too the seeds of remembrance to live in gratitude, to embrace together in peace, love, forgiveness and acceptance. The seeds to move the human race forward and connect all people hand in hand together as one! Take hold new seedlings, embed and grow in the hearts of each one young and old beneath this starry sky this night!”

South America
Santa’s Blessing & Wish for this Nation:
“Great wishes are scattered beneath this starry sky to all our brothers and sisters on this eve of the birth of new beginnings.  These seeds of hope, great dreams for unity, peace and freedom are too the seeds of remembrance to live in gratitude, to embrace together in peace, love, forgiveness and acceptance. The seeds to move the human race forward and connect all people hand in hand together as one! Take hold new seedlings, embed and grow in the hearts of each one young and old beneath this starry sky this night!”

Places to look

Birthday Messages
Birthday Wishes And Quotes
Birthday E-Cards

The old saying is it’s the thought that counts, and to be fully honest the thing to remember is that it is the thought that counts. Why do people always smile when they get a terribly drawn photo from a child? It’s because it’s filled with sentimental value and general intent to please the reciever. So if your birthday message is filled with a bag of love you can’t go wrong (within reason).

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I remember even as child, I came across some very old books that belonged to my dad, about Royals, I was totally fascinated. A dreamer from the beginning, I was spellbound, those beautiful pictures, even the black and white ones, those jewels, the gold, the Tiaras, and Royal Crowns, scepters, the palaces, their beautiful furnishings. It was awesome.

                       And then I watched a postcard album that had belonged to my grandma. Those pictures have never stopped fascinating me. (I’ve even uploaded some of them here, not as clear as I would have liked them to come). 

How I longed to be a royal. I wonder if that’s how most little girls feel.

All those Pictures of the Queeen mother, the coronation, the two princesses growing up. It was simply facinating. I must have watched those pictures over and over a million times at least!

 Queen Elizebeth was no doubt very beautiful….

 But Princess Margaret was the one I really liked! 

I thought she along with Princesss Alexandra of Kent was one of the most beautiful of Royals I’d ever seen.                                                        

And then as I was growing, the royal wedding. The wedding of all weddings!

Wow, I’d never seen anything like it, I remember feasting my eyes on every magazine, any book I saw, that had pictures of the new princess Di, the wedding photographs, the ones of William and Harry, the tours, the dresses.  

I still enjoy watching them. One would think, after all those years of watching them over and over again I’d have had my fill of them, but no, not me, the look of Princess Diana, in those beautiful gowns always seems to take my breath away, especially those pictures of her, taken during those first ten years or so of her marriage to the Prince Charles. 

Yes I know, many won’t agree with me, but truly, that’s the way I feel I only enjoyed her pictures during those first years after her wedding, I’m not sure what it was, the innocent look, the hair….. I think it was the hair; I didn’t enjoy her pictures too much after she cut them shorter. I guess she seemed more feminine to me with the longer look. Too short, well that sort of looks masculine to me.

Anyway, back to the main topic. During that first decade or so after Diana’s marriage, I was fully engrossed in the royals, seeking their pictures, putting them up in my room, talking about them all the time.

Prince Andrew got married during those years too, and then I had an added interest in the royals, Sarah Ferguson, wow, some wedding that was. Andrew and Sarah, her dress was simply gorgeous, both looked so happy together, the easy going, friendly attitude, the fun. Yes that is one wedding I can never forget, I thought it was lovely absolutely perfect.I truly believe there was no other royal wedding like that till Prince Albert’s this year with Charlene.

But then, all the scandals and everything, not to mention the ones already going on about Prince Charles and Diana. I didn’t want to believe in any of those, so I never bothered to read about them. I only wanted to enjoy the beautiful pictures and my own little dream world where I would be princess some day, just like the Princess I had most admired, ever!  

                                                                                                   …. to be continued.