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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