My Royal Connection

So what if we shared a common ancestor? Bhad mein jaye common ancestor! 

Sorry Grandpa, of course you still remain my strongest link with the British Royal Drama Company, but you have been dead for such a long time that your descendants have stopped valuing relationships.

Even then, I wish my distant cousin, William, and the new recruit in the Drama Company, Catherine, a very happy married life.

Because there were no cameras back then, and you didn't leave any pictures, I will post a sketch of you for my friends, and they will definitely be able to notice the resemblance.

I am very sorry to disappoint my readers, but I couldn’t witness the wedding first hand. Just like others, I had to resort to the net to watch the videos and the pictures of the extravaganza. My readers were waiting to hear my account of the high profile pageantry, more so because I was related to the Royals and could have told my readers a lot of inside gossip. Even I wanted to be a part of it, and had been practicing the required dialogues and moves for the past many days as is evident by the picture on the left.

But a few days prior to the staging of the drama, I suffered serious setbacks. I went through severe personal crises. Tragedy after tragedy struck me out of the blue. First the living God, the Avatar, died prematurely last Sunday and then my Kalmadi Bhaiya was put in jail because of some planetary disturbances in the sky. I was mourning both these losses, so it was out of the question to indulge in any kind of frivolous activity. I even requested the Queen to postpone the tamasha or the pageantry, but she did not agree.

I am disappointed that they did not show respect to Kalmadi Bhaiya, who had done so much for the Commonwealth, nor to Sai Baba, who had always blessed everyone with so many things. What was the point of declaring William and Catherine "man and a wife in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" when the Royals didn’t pay tribute to the Three-In-One in an orange robe? At least, they should have waited until the advent of Ma Prema Sai.

The Queen totally disregarded my connection to her, through you, and went ahead with the marriage. I am sure you must be turning in your grave. I miss you dear great-great-great-grandpa!

He had such kind eyes! (Sketch by JenCorwin1)