What was your favorite part?
I was touched by the attentiveness of the Abbey staff, the music blew me away, and the flawless work of the BBC made it, well, royal. The crowd participation in the hymns outside was joyous.
What were the highlights for you?
For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.
From The Declaration of Arbroath 1320.
The hymns – we knew the words even though some of us left the fundamentalist evangelical world behind the words of the hymns reminded me of the joy of worship.
The camera from the top of the Abbey was awesome.
Couldn’t care less, frankly. A lot to do about nothing. The two people getting married aren’t heroes in the real sense of the word, and the blood that runs through their veins is no more “royal” than the child starving to death in Africa. The marriage won’t make the world a better place and I’m really tired of the upper crust getting all the adoration from the proletariat. And for doing WHAT, exactly?
Happy Friday.
While I might acquiesce to show a little joy for the couple and their families, I honestly couldn’t care less about the whole thing for the most part. Don’t understand the cultist infatuation with the love lives of people that happen to be the result of a lot of royal inbreeding. Just more celebrity worship. I guess if I was born and raised in London I might have a bit more compassion and curiosity, but personally I’ll be relieved when this report of two over-privileged people getting married at great expense to taxpayers is out of the news.
It is accurate to posit that Australia, New Zealand and Canada are not independent, sovereign countries. However, these nations are not owned and run by the UK; they are owned and run by the House of Windsor Crown Temple syndicate within the City of London Corporation. The head signatory of the Crown Temple syndicate is Elizabeth Windsor (Queen Elizabeth II of England).
LoL. Brano: No one expects you to care.
The spiritual analogies are not far from the surface, but again, no one expects understanding. QEII has served her people faithfully and well, not perfectly, but well, and whether or not the Commonwealth holds or the royals stay, the event was flawless and a much needed psychological boost to the UK. Sometimes a bit of pomp is good for people.
I would much rather enjoy a good ole fashion Irish peasant wedding anyday…
Fair enough, it would be grand to be able to enjoy both.:^)
“…for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer…”
Yeah. Poorer. Like that’s gonna happen.
I liked the reading from Romans 12, so well read by the brother of the bride. An intriguing but (I thought) inspired choice – though it stopped just short of the ‘If your enemy is hungry, feed them’ part!