Later that evening, Prince Charles is hosting a reception for of the guests at Frogmore House, less than a mile from Windsor Castle. Lemon and elderflower cake will be served.
The issue of whether the Obamas would attend the royal wedding developed into a knotty question of etiquette in the months leading up to the event. But inviting the former president would mean inviting the current president too, or else risk an unforgivable snub.
In the end, Kensington Palace announced that no politicians would be invited to the royal wedding , not even British Prime Minister Theresa May: It will be strictly a friends-and-family affair, so neither Obama nor Trump will be in attendance.
The Spice Girls, however, have reportedly been invited and are rumored to be performing. Boy, can you: on TV, online, and in theaters. You can also listen to it on vinyl. Vox has rounded up all the ways to watch the royal wedding here.
The royal family will pay for the wedding itself , with Markle most likely paying for her gown. But some analysts are arguing that in the long term, the royal wedding is an advertisement for the royal family and for England in general, and it might, in that sense, end up eventually paying for itself.
Speaking of that engagement dress: It caused a bit of a stir when the photos came out because of its sheer bodice. It was perfectly decent and everything was covered, but it was just a bit edgier than the royal family usually goes. That slightly daring choice has led some commenters to wonder whether Markle might go in a less conservative direction for her wedding gown — possibly even sleeveless. For her first wedding, a beach ceremony in Jamaica, Markle wore a white sleeveless dress with an embellished belt.
Prince Harry, however, does like jewelry, and he is reportedly planning to wear a wedding band after the wedding. In general, royal divorces stay outside of the courts and are worked out behind closed doors as much as possible. At the end of the day, a royal wedding is just two famous people getting married and picking up a bunch of inherited wealth and an inherited title. So why do we care? Last fall, when Meghan and Harry announced their engagement, I wrote a little about the unique place the British royal family holds in American pop culture :.
On the one hand: Yay, American Revolution, all men are created equal, down with kings, etc. But on the other, the British monarchy is such a fertile site for fairy tale imagining. The royal wedding is complicated for feminists In addition to the question of what it means for a biracial woman to enter the royal family, feminists in the US and UK are grappling with whether and how to celebrate an event steeped in patriarchal tradition: the lavish wedding of a woman to a man.
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The former Suits actress is new ground for the royal family in numerous ways — an American, divorced, bi-racial actress who is joining the firm at a later age than most royals she is Mixed race, older than Harry, with an unsettled family background, she is completely different to any other royal bride, in the history of royal brides.
Unlike other princesses and duchesses, Markle — as a woman in her mid-thirties — had a life before marrying her prince. We knew from her now deleted social-media accounts that she is a politically engaged philanthropist who has used her voice to fight for issues she believed in. Markle will be our first ever woke princess. While this seems appropriate given that we are no longer in the Victorian age, Hunt questions whether or not this will be an issue within the traditional confines of the royal family.
The firm have never treated women who refuse to conform to its rigid norms too kindly. How will she cope? How does a woman with opinions function within the royal family? She is a self-confessed, self-advertised feminist. How does that work in an institution like the royal family? Her comments on Me Too, how many more times can she say that once she is a duchess? As Prince William and Kate Middleton prepare to tie the knot, what are the ingredients of the ideal Royal marriage ceremony?
Fairytale pageant, national communion or - for those so politically disposed - a Ruritanian waste of money, the Royal wedding occupies a unique position in the collective British imagination. Prince William and his fiancee, Kate Middleton, may have to contend with all the stresses and strains that confront any young couple preparing to marry - but conforming to the expectations and aspirations of an entire nation is an additional item on their to-do list.
The UK may be a less deferential place than when Prince Charles and Princess Diana married in - a country where people prefer to vote out their public figures on prime-time TV rather than doff their caps to them. Divorce, scandal and the steady murmurings of republican sentiment might also mean that that the monarchy does not quite carry all the fairytale sparkle it did a generation previously.
But, nonetheless, the British Royal wedding remains a unique occasion that encapsulates many of the oddities and indosyncracies of the national psyche. And even a cursory study of Royal weddings throughout history reveal that certain expectations are woven into the event like the stitching in a shop-bought Union Jack.
So what key components of Willliam and Kate's ceremony can we anticipate in the spring or summer of ? For all their glamour, British heirs to the throne have a habit of marrying during periods of economic hardship. In , the then-princess Elizabeth's wedding to Lt Philip Mountbatten took place against a backdrop of post-war austerity, rationing and devaluation. Yet both occasions proved hugely popular with the beleaguered British public - the glitz, romance and opulence of the ceremonies offering respite from eras of hardship and uncertainty.
Will the post-credit crunch UK of mid, in which the coalition government's spending cuts will have begun to bite, take similar refuge from reality in Prince William and Kate Middleton's nuptials? Peter York, social commentator and author of Peter York's Eighties and The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook, believes there is currently a public appetite for escapism mirroring that of the early s. Nonetheless, York suspects the Palace will be keen not to overdo the ostentatious bling lest it prove too much for hard-up subjects.
In the build-up to next year's wedding a great deal of the hype and speculation will surround the design and making of the bride's dress. With so many people watching, much will be read into Kate Middleton's choice of attire.
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