Royal banquet

Jack Shafer notes that WaPo managed to get 10 stories out of the non-event of the year: Charles and Camillia's American debut. He published too early, though, to get the final after-dinner drink: Robin Givhan's commentary on what the ladies wore to the White House dinner in Chaz and Cami's honor and other sartorial matters. The verdict:

Those who have met the duchess say that she is warm, intelligent and substantial. She is not a clotheshorse, they say. And that is wonderful. But she is also a public person about whom Americans know very little. (We are only just now learning about her work in fighting osteoporosis.) Mostly, she has been known as one of two leading characters in a tawdry, public affair. Now, that tale is being played as a love story. The leading man's love interest needs to get better costuming.

Laura Bush, on the other hand, looked smashing.