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Meanwhile, William and Kate were at the Buckingham Palace together on Thursday holding meetings with their aids. Palace officials say invitations have yet to go out for the April 29 wedding, and they won't comment on possible big names on the guest list.
It is only to outsiders, apparently, that the ghost of Diana poses such a problem.
For me, it's not the mention of Diana - surely it's the norm to refer to a deceased parent on such an occasion. No, it's the suggestion that Earl Spencer makes such a speech. Shall we say he has proved less than tactful on past form, and leave it at that.
Very interesting article, especially for someone like myself who had no access at all at the time, to what the British media was saying about Prince Charles and Lady Diana.From the archives: The Royal Marriage Question
From the archives: The Royal Marriage Question | The Spectator
Very interesting article, especially for someone like myself who had no access at all at the time, to what the British media was saying about Prince Charles and Lady Diana.
Given the relatively short amount of time they dated before the engagement was announced, this article, although a bit prophetic, comes off as exerting too much pressure on Prince Charles to marry a "suitable" lady.
It makes Prince William look all the more steadfast for taking his time.
We don't know how much of a problem this 'ghost' might be to Kate.
She already has to wear her ring, now appears to have to have a eulogy to the dead mother at her wedding, what next?
Would William have been allowed to take his time like this if the Charles/Diana marriage had worked - somehow I doubt it.
If nothing else was learnt about the Charles/Diana disaster it was that the couples need longer than six months and 13 dates to make this sort of decision.
I don't know if it is William being steadfast or his father and father's family advising him to take as long as he needs to avoid another fiasco of a royal marriage.
I am still uncomfortable about the engagement ring and I think I always will be. It was such a distinctive bauble and the subject of so much discussion and so very identifiable with Diana. I feel Kate will be carrying Diana around on her finger every day and the idea frankly makes me shudder. I'd certainly want my own engagement ring if I were in her position. Mind you, I don't have an engagement ring, or a wedding ring for that matter because my husband wouldn't wear one and I was a stoppy 70s feminist and I've never used his surname either, but that doesn't stop me having opinions about all of this and expressing them.
William looks at it all from a completely different perspective: as the beloved son of a beloved mother who died too young. I also think that Kate well knows of her fiancee's attachment to his mother, and knows what he wants and what to expect, and doesn't mind. At least I hope so, for her sake.
As for the "eulogy", I tend to think that commonsense will prevail and, whichever Spencer gives the speech, it will be based around how much Diana loved her sons and how happy she would be to know William had found true love, etc.
It seems that Diana and Sarah wore their engagement rings pretty much all the time--even after their divorces. I wonder if Catherine will wear her/Diana's ring in the same way or whether she will discretely start to save it for more formal occasions.
Complete speculation on my part, but I do wonder, because, I agree with you, it will forever remind the public and press of Diana wherever she goes.
Somehow for day to day wear and everyday activities, I picture Kate just wearing her gold wedding band. Isn't it traditional that the wedding rings are made out of a nugget of Welsh gold? Very fitting as they're going to be living in Wales for a while.
Actually, the fact that wedding date turned out to be the feast day of St. Catherine was a coincidence, according to Clarence House.
Other Christian denominations do honor saints, Anglicanism being one. Both Anglican and Episcopal churches are often named for them. Those of us raised as Episcopalians/Anglicans are simply taught not to take nearly as much interest in them as the Roman Catholics do, and they are not presented as "intercessors". Nor are the stories of their lives and martyrdoms, if any, part and parcel of our religious education. I had to learn these as a budding art historian in high school.
Other Christian denominations do honor saints, Anglicanism being one. Both Anglican and Episcopal churches are often named for them. Those of us raised as Episcopalians/Anglicans are simply taught not to take nearly as much interest in them as the Roman Catholics do, and they are not presented as "intercessors". Nor are the stories of their lives and martyrdoms, if any, part and parcel of our religious education. I had to learn these as a budding art historian in high school.
Somehow for day to day wear and everyday activities, I picture Kate just wearing her gold wedding band. Isn't it traditional that the wedding rings are made out of a nugget of Welsh gold? Very fitting as they're going to be living in Wales for a while.
I pretty much agree with most of you but I am surprised no one has mentioned Princess Beatrice or Princess Eugenie.
I'll put this in here since it also talks a bit about what their going to do after they're married
Prince William: Let my father become King - Telegraph
Andrew Lloyd Webber Wants to Compose for Prince William's Wedding 2010/11/27
I'll put this in here since it also talks a bit about what their going to do after they're married
Prince William: Let my father become King - Telegraph
Andrew Lloyd Webber Wants to Compose for Prince William's Wedding 2010/11/27
I'll put this in here since it also talks a bit about what their going to do after they're married
Prince William: Let my father become King - Telegraph
Andrew Lloyd Webber Wants to Compose for Prince William's Wedding 2010/11/27