PRINCE
CHARLES & LADY DIANNA
Across
the Fence
By
Arvord Abernethy
If
I had seen the lady lose her glass slipper as she stepped into that
beautiful carriage, which was drawn by four white horses, I would have
known that I was seeing a fairy tale instead of the actual marriage of
Prince Charles and Lady Diana. About once in a lifetime does one get to
witness such pageantry and splendor, so that is why up to one billion
people watched part of it one way or another.
Even
with all the elaborate fairy tale surroundings, human frailties did show
up. One might wonder why it took Lady Diana so long to walk to the
altar. If you had to pull such a long bridal train, you would have had
to take your time too. Amtrak would like to have a train that nice to
pull. The way an attendant had to help Lady Diana get the train around a
corner reminds one of how those long-ladder fire trucks in cities have
to steer the back wheels also to get around a corner.
The
little errors in repeating the marriage vows might not have all been
caused by nervousness. Lady Diana was supposed to repeat his name which
was Charles Philip Edward George, but she said Philip Charles Edward
George. You have heard of women starting early to change their new
husbands. She should be thankful that she didn’t live across the
English Channel
over in
France
where she might have had to repeat such a name as Beauregard Giscard
Lecanuet Mitterand.
Prince
Charles might have had something in mind when he said that he would
bestow all his goods on her but not all his worldly goods. He could be
holding out on her.
Wonder
if the fad for ladies hats will come back now since so many were being
worn at the royal wedding. A lady would have been more acceptable at it
barefooted than she would have been bareheaded.
There
are advantages and disadvantages to ladies wearing hats. One doesn’t
always have a fresh hairdo; and Seth Moore thinks he can sleep in church
much better if the lady in front has on a large hat.
One
might wonder why all the trouble and expense of putting on such an
elaborate affair. You got the answer when you heard the nobility in the
cathedral or the citizen on the street blend their voices as they sang,
“God Save the Queen” The royalty of England has been a mighty
binding force and rallying point through these hundreds of years of
English history. This love for
England
was shown whether the person was wearing gold braid or faded blue jeans.
During
World War II when buildings were crumbling all around from enemy shells,
but the spirits of the people were not, they would stand waist deep in
the rubble of their homes and their businesses and yet sing, “There
Will Always be an
England
”. They truly learned what it was to shed “Sweat, Blood and
Tears’. Such days as last Wednesday keep that love for country alive.
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