Wedding says much about our fascination with royalty

Posted by newbie Saturday, April 30, 2011 0 comments
The monarchy sidesteps the awkwardness of patriotism and allows us to feel a rare British pride
What memory will live on? For those who lined the Mall, painting their faces red, white and blue, or who just stayed home watching on television — what will they remember? The kiss on the balcony will be the image replayed in perpetuity, just as it was when William's mother and father married 30 years ago — the difference being that this time they looked like a couple genuinely in love. Others will talk about the pageantry, a show no one lays on quite like the British. It's a fair bet that almost no one will remember the words. Even the eyes of the wedding couple wandered during the spoken bits.
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