Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glance behind glass. A held hand in an open carriage. A rushed, royal reordering of family gathered for farewell. A kiss. Several smiles. Two simple vows. Twelve balloons and a hand-lettered sign...
...majesty of the royal wedding was abundant in its ritual splendors, but its soul was all in the small things...
...future possibilities. And what better reminder than a wedding-showmanship and statesmanship in high style? The whole country is invited; the world can look on. The monarchy is seen, resplendent, as what the British have long insisted that it has become: an extended, and exalted, surrogate family. "The royal scene is simply a presentation of ourselves behaving well," said Dame Rebecca West. "If anybody is being honored, it is the human race." The Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, touched on the same theme in his wedding address, when he said that "all couples on their wedding day are 'royal...
...wedding seems to represent a solid, splendidly dramatic investment, like the monarchy itself. "Take away the monarchy from England and you've got just a banana republic," observes Kenneth Greenwood, 52, a former Royal Life Guard who escorted then Princess Elizabeth at her wedding in 1947. "You can screw around with the government here, but you can't screw around with the royal family." Robert Goodden, whose Lullingstone silkworms spun out the stuff of Lady Diana's wedding gown, insists that "very few, outside the extremists, would want to do away with the royal family. The fact...
...plan of the left-dominated town council to hold a "republican day" on the 29th and instead festooned their buildings with red, white and blue bunting and covered the windows in the town center with Union Jacks. Local Leftist Leader Cliff Fox had previously gone on record calling the royal family "a bloody parasite on the backs of the working class," with the result that several residents suggested that he be run up the pole instead of the town's red flag. Fox made himself scarce on the wedding day. Even in Brixton, scene of London's worst...