(of course it's all about me)

[scarfman]

Watching the CBS coverage of the royal wedding - which, at the beginning, consisted primarily of rebroadcast of the wedding of Charles and Diana - makes me think of this passage from one of my own works, The Yellow Age:

"Captain!" grinned the Doctor, shrugging into his greatcoat and great scarf. "I thought you'd been kicked upstairs."

"I'm afraid of heights," said Kirk. "Doctor, what are you doing here?"

"Research," said the Doctor, waving at the magazine rack at the nearest checkstand. Spock moved off to investigate them himself.

All Kirk saw were paper magazines. "Research?"

"What do you know of 'tabloid news'?" the Doctor asked.

Kirk hadn't lived as much history as the Doctor - quite - but it was one of his hobby horses. And he'd just been through the least engrossing two years of his Starfleet career. "At the height of sensational journalism on Earth, the worst of them all were newspapers printed in tabloid format. The 'golden age', if you will -"

"The golden age of yellow journalism," said Romana with enthused derision.

"- Is pretty much regarded as having started with the death of Elvis Presley, and having ended with the death of Lady Diana Spencer."

"King William's mother?" McCoy said. "What's she got to do with tabloid journalism?"

The Doctor grinned, and ducked his head as if something embarrassing might be showing on his face. "She'd be quite pleased that you have to ask."