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...social and historical significance, the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana was something else as well: an event of unparalleled visual splendor. To capture the pageantry and pomp of the occasion, TIME deployed a team of photographers in London. They came back with some of the stunning photographs in this week's report on "The Wedding of the Century." Julian Calder shot the wedding ceremony from the 100-ft.-high whispering gallery inside St. Paul's Cathedral. Across the plaza Terry Spencer crouched in a fourth-floor window and photographed the royal procession. Nearby, Dirck Halstead snapped...
...ritual and regalia of the wedding were matched in ingenuity if not in splendor by the celebrations surrounding them. Angus Henry, 25, a freelance caterer, and Gwyn Jenkins, 25, an interior designer, set up hard by Buckingham Palace with a television, three cases of sparkling white wine, masses of duck pate, a crate of salmon sandwiches, French bread, orange juice and a large black umbrella. They threw a party right there for 50 friends, and on the wedding morning Angus changed into a morning suit. All along the wedding route, spectators wrapped themselves in flags and youths painted the Union...
...keeping close to the ground than Gildersleeve and Beevis. After putting the word around that they had prepared several back-up dresses in case of a security breach, they finally fessed up that there was only one after all. But it was enough, and then some. It balanced stately splendor and storybook fantasy and was altogether a knockout. "The fairyness was us," David Emanuel said. "The regalness...
...recital, the Freni voice was heard in its full splendor, as tonally pure as ever, colored with a golden sheen but possessing that greater richness that comes with age to singers who have taken care of their voices. In a program of opera arias and art songs, this new texture enhanced what was already a remarkable instrument. Her impassioned performance of Tu che la vanità from Don Carlos showed that she can sing more demanding music with out forcing her tone or altering the quality of her voice...
...radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky, That would be like the splendor Of the Mighty...