THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1960.
GODFREY WINN THE WRITER WHO SEES WHAT THE OTHERS MISS at the Abbey Treat Yourself to the
SATURDAY SPOTLIGHT watched the ghost of
The Pomp & Isolation of Royalty
Cummings
"With this
I thee wed!"
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The Younger Sister
banished
WHEN
►
for ever
/HEN the bridegroom, accompanied by his best man, came through the great doors under the organ loft to take his seat in the lantern to wait for his bride's arrival I noticed something at once. Not that the bridegroom was very pale, but that his dark grey socks needed a tug.
Somehow it made him suddenly like any other bridegroom_being married, with a white carnation in his buttonhole, this spring on a Friday afternoon in a village church.
the
And when later he knelt at everybne, and the one of the scarlet priedieu be- Kent, side the Princess, who had al- ready promised to "obey," and his voice:
despite the micro- phones-just above their heads seemed only a whisper as he gave the familjar moving mises-with this ring wed, with my body I thee wor- ship the soles of his shoes were shiny. Because no one, I sip-
Duchess of Abbey when the elder sister took the younger one's hand to guide her up the nave.
While
Queen,
who
Discussing that occasion years mainituled. the later with Princess Margaret throughout
expression, when and the dresses they both wore same solem the hymn came "Immortal, In- on that occasion, she admitted be visible God Only Wise, hardly to me ruefully, "oh yes, in the glanced the book end 1 had matie a fuss, She knew the they did give me a train too, front of her.
but it was still that much words
shorter than my sister's."
Would she be wearing a train today, I wondered, remembering too, that after I had asked her once what
Then there were the chairs in pose in all the welter and the sanctuary, beside the altar, fluster of the preparations had that while they were still empty, suggested darkening them to waiting for the arrival of the
was new royal procession, seemed uncom- take away their
monly like the little gilt chairs look.
that are hired out for a coming- out dance or, a party in the town hall every week,
brand
Realism
perhaps some
If you are
as close as I was at the ceremony you can't help noticing the little things that missed on tele- vision, and which made it all seem so much more real to me, Like the way the Queen wasn't sure what to do with her bag that matched her greeny- blue dress and in the end put it down on the empty seat that awaited her husband, while her mother famly kept hers on her arm throughout the ser vice.
members of the
And again, that the only two Royal Family to wear glasses to look at their the Princess programmes were Roval, whose gold lame dress Tather
surprisingly
outshone
her earliest memory, she had said: “I half remember half talling out of a pram. I suppose I wanted to be natioed."
Challenge
her mother and then curtisded
to her sister, the Queen, just
FL:$
I had watched Princess Elizabeth cartsy to her father on her wedding day.
Was Chivile, fæer old gover ness, watching that thönefit on a television screen far away in Scotland, and did it Bring back bitter-sweet all kinds of memories?
As
Eager
on
the bride passed through the chole stalls towards the west door the Queen Mother. burned and smiled down at Prince Charles, whose
checks
Had shone with easter excite-
ment throughout, as he turned his head now this way and now that. Finally, as the bride dis- appeared from sight, he put his hands through his leather belt and gave a sigh of satisfaction as much as to say: "Well, thank goodness, everything passed of ali right."
It seems to me important to record such things, because they
Then the royal procession add up to my overriding im
followed the bride and bride- pression of the wedding itself, that though it went with the
Well certainly today the eyes groom, but now my eyes were clockwork smoothness and pre- of the whole world ate of her, for the bridegroom's mother, cision that we have come to ex- I thought and once and forever who looked impressively hand- pect from any big royal oc- the ghost of the "younger some and regal herself as she casion, yet it had, from start to sister" is banished. This is your followed the Queen finish, an overflowing spontane day, and nothing can dim it or easy moment or position for ous feeling of simplicity. For spoil it, I decided da, on Prince anyone, but she held her head came slowly high. For what mother would all the solemnity and grandeur Philip's arm, she
Not an
of the setting that is what I to the steps of the sanctuary not be proud of her son on such shall remember longest of all, and turned with a smile to give a day? The mood of friendliness and her bouquet to Princess Anne, unpretentiousness,
One has grown accustomed to
Proudest
a
way,
to
In the pause and the sudden her dazzling appearances on All the same, silence between the music of the great occasions.
coronet of diamonds Preliminary voluntaries and the with her
All the same I could not help her hair, she had thinking arrival of the bride's sister and high up on
that perhaps the her mother, I found my own the look of a figure from a proudest person in the Abbey round going back to the first medieval misal and one had had been Mrs Peabody who coronation I attended in the the feeling that always one was there, in
would gaze at her as she was at represent every charlady and that moment and she would be every landlady who at some as beautiful and fair,
time or other has mothered a Thew the moment was over young man living on his own, she moved forward to the and cooked his food and done priedieu, and her bridegroom his shopping and brushed his followed. But it was the last best suit for him, and always time when he walked two steps believed that one day his ship behind her. From now on they would come into harbour. were side by side both on their
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knees while the Archbishop And as I re-emerged into the pronounced the words that sunshine and started to. walk each time they are, uttered, along the Embankment home, whether by a bishop or a parish with the gulls weaving in the priest, throw down the chal- sunshine and Purcell's trumpet lenge again: "Those
whom Voluntary still ringing in my God hath joined together let no cars. I thought: "They have man put asunder.”
Lecture
given her. a Rolls-Royce and the Government has increased her yearly income by many thousands of pounds, but of all the hundreds and hundreds of And later, as they walked wedding gifts that have been together towards the High showered on her from all over Altar, one felt that all earthly the world, surely the one that that they really matters is rank had fallen away. brides get married in a church allowed her in the end to marry
for love. simply because it gives them a
Many
chance to wear a white wedding dres; to bask in the admiration sun shone so brilliantly all day Are you surprised that the of all eyes. But one couki not
long? help tealing as the service Approached. He climax that, this bride bad deliberately chosen aj dress of classical simplicity as the symbol of her own spiritual attitude to the surrender of the ceremony..
Secretly I was glad that the bride had decided that me wanted to be married without` an address by the Archbishop. The last time. I'd been in the Abbey was for the memorial ser- vice to Countess Mountbatten when the Archbishop of Canter- bury had given, a funeral oration that was as dry, as dust, a school- master's 'becture,
Today his voice was still dry and colourless compared with the warmth of the dean.
Lady Pamela Hicks, in a sophisticated pink het, was in the font tow on the bride's ake with her husband and,
I although she has been a bride herwell for only a few weeks, already she abemed to have a new poise, a new airce of confidence.
But perhaps it wee all part of the mood that everything Jeaned right except that I wisfied that the Queen herself had been able to relic more at this fated working and emile more like for mother and her husband who was sporting the target philc Malmaison that I hirve ever aber in a man's buttonhole. A
For, after all, a wedding is a Very joyous occasion,TUE, there have always been waka and pestilentes and foods, but equally there is the rebirth of hope every time that a young Couple whether in Westminster Abbey, the muster ing point for all Christians in the Commonwealth or in 0. village church, decide to ask, for Gods Etenting for their union.
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