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...bride and groom let butterflies best them only when they bobbled their vows a little. The bride transposed the first two of the groom's royal collection of names (Charles Philip Arthur George), and the groom omitted the qualifier when he promised her his "worldly goods." This was a charmed couple on a charmed occasion, and everyone, accordingly, was charmed by the mistakes. They were, in fact, almost a relief in the flawlessly directed proceedings, which managed to accommodate pomp, circumstance and the circumference of the King of Tonga, who settled his abundant frame into a chair...
...groom himself had to put up with a little good-natured palace revolution. His brothers Andrew and Edward got hold of a dozen balloons emblazoned with the Prince of Wales emblem, borrowed lipstick from a lady-in-waiting to scrawl a JUST MARRIED sign, and got up the royal buggy so that Charles and Diana looked like a couple of nine-to-fivers heading for a week at Brighton...
...Windsors have an almost acrobatic talent for letting down even while they stay aloof. This explains why it was noted with pleasure that on the wedding night, with bride and groom safely off on the first leg of their honeymoon, the Queen showed up at Lady Elizabeth Shakerley's "do" at Claridge's and danced to Lester Lanin, while her sister Princess Margaret arranged a couple of chairs, put up her feet and, according to a waiter, "had a good rest." It also shows why Princess Anne could have appeared the next day at a Royal Navy ceremonial...
...Marriage is first of all a new creation for the partners themselves ... But any marriage which is turned in upon itself, in which the bride and groom simply gaze obsessively at one another, goes sour after a time. A marriage which really works is one which works for others ... If we solved all our economic problems and failed to build loving families, it would profit us nothing, because the family is the place where the future is created good and full of love-or deformed...
...party of parties before the wedding will be the Queen's ball at the palace, which has a guest list of 5,000. On the wedding evening, with the bride and groom safely off, the Queen just might drop in on Lady Elizabeth Shakerly's rout. Lady Elizabeth discovered that rout is an 18th century term for what lesser mortals might call a blast. "I don't dare do something with caviar and lobster because I can't afford it," the Lady explains. "I am having scrambled eggs and bacon from...