Eight years ago, couple, family, Queen and country came together in a ceremony that was called the saviour of the monarchy and marriage. Happy anniversary Will and Kate. (From 2011)
She wore a tiara borrowed from her new grandmother, and diamond drop earrings, a wedding gift from her beloved parents, and that dress, which so perfectly captured the spirit of the day: a confluence of the modern and the traditional; a sense that the monarchy, the country and the couple were moving forward, with a fond look back. And at the altar of Westminster Abbey her husband-to-be turned, and became what seems like the last person on earth to see his bride in her finery.
Then there was Pippa Middleton, who was both the exotically sleek caboose at the end of her sister’s 2.7-m bridal train, and a driving force unto herself. Both sisters wore, to great effect, creations by Sarah Burton for the British design house of the late Alexander McQueen. The reviews were in before the two women glided back out the abbey doors. “She is the Grace Kelly of our age,” designer Graeme Black gushed of Catherine.
Perhaps it was always Catherine’s dream to become a princess, so much sweeter sounding than duchess. Walking among the thousands outside Buckingham Palace one saw dozens of them, of all ages, in fancy frocks and bargain-store tiaras. Such is the enduring hold of fairy tales. Or perhaps she loved her man despite the fact that he is second in line to the throne, requiring her to join The Firm and live over the shop. Regardless, almost a decade after their first meeting as students at St.
So different a time. Yet in many ways the feel and form of this wedding, and of the confident young man at its centre, are rooted in that event. Standing beside him at the abbey was red-headed Harry, third in line to the throne, but the hair apparent among balding Windsor men. They grinned and whispered—two soldiers in dress uniform, brothers in arms—their bond of friendship obvious.
Certainly that was the view on the street. In the early hours of the wedding day, a group of young friends up from Southampton planted themselves on the royal procession route, finding a prime piece of sidewalk on Whitehall, near the entrance to Downing Street. They dressed for the occasion in middle-class casual, the young men wearing sport coats. They sipped wine from plastic cups, watching the passing scene as the crowd swelled behind them.
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