3.30 a.m. Wasn't it all wonderful? Don't we do these things well? Didn't you love the dress? Not over the top like that other wedding dress which looked like a newly landed parachute but one with clearly defined classical lines. In fact that was the antithesis between the two weddings. One was a romantic overstated mess and the other was an example of all that is best in classicism. The wearer of the first came to the usual romantic end - a sad one - while we must hope that the latest dress will bring peace and happiness to the wearer and her subjects.
How brave of the bride who has married into this strange defective family. With Graeco-German origins it has been going steadily down hill but happily is now being fished up to the middle class which Miss Middleton - although now a duchess - adorned. The Great British Public have failed to notice this as they read about the exploits of the Royals who became what is surely the number one soap opera of our time. With rumours about their infidelities, divorces, falls from horseback, car crashes and fires they have served up what the soap watcher wants. And they are all headed up by a wonderful old woman whose silent determination to get on with the job has preserved the institution we obviously all want. But it is time to change and this is where Kate comes in as a breath of fresh air from a family which can boast coal miners among its antecedents. (Can one believe that we once valued coal owners more than the miners who did the work for them?) To be honest they were getting rather dull as they recovered from the Diana crisis. But it is time to begin anew and this is were the latest Duchess must come in. We are right behind her.
And what abour her sister? Wow!
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