April 09, 2005
Opinion:
A brief interlude...
By Jack Grant...to show that not all is grim and hopeless:
Cheering crowds of well-wishers welcomed an excited bride who arrived for her wedding at Windsor Guildhall just an hour after the royal nuptials.Grace Beesley, 33, looked amazed and laughed with her bridesmaids over a welcome which was fit for royalty.
Wearing a tiara and white fur collar, Miss Beesley waved to the crowds who were still gathered behind crash barriers.
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Miss Beesley posed briefly on the steps where Prince Charles and the new Duchess of Cornwall had earlier greeted the public following their marriage.
She told reporters she was "very excited, very excited", about her own wedding day and her marriage to Fraser Moores, 34.
The couple's friends and family arrived for the wedding in a vintage double decker bus.
One of their guests, Helen Kirkby said the wedding of the young couple from Windsor was not going to be outshined by the earlier event.
She said: "The way it has kicked off already, there is no way they were going to be upstaged.
"They have got a double decker bus, the royal couple have gone, they're doing their thing and we are going to do ours."
The wedding of Prince Charles had to be delayed a day for the funeral of Pope John Paul II, so needless to say, the others being married at Windsor Guildhall were not expecting the collision of their lives with royalty and the associated crowds.
Somehow, I find hope in the crowd cheering for the new bride, a woman who had nothing to do with the royal family in the UK.
Just an ordinary woman, doing an ordinary thing, getting married, and yet, receiving good natured, well intentioned cheers from those there to get a glimpse of modern "royals".
A woman who received accolades for just reminding everyone that we all sometimes deserve cheers.
A useful reminder to not lose one's self in the apocalyptic visions of darkness and death.
Posted by Jack Grant at 22:04 on 9 April 2005I watched some of the coverage on CBC. I was trying to figure out what the orchestra was playing when Camilla arrived. It was vaguely familiar, but I couldn't place it.
Then a friend phoned. He was trying very hard not to kill himself laughing. He asked me if I was watching the wedding. I allowed I was, and he asked me if I recognised the music.
After I told him I didn't, he told me that it was the music originally used for opening the 1981 TV miniseries "Brideshead Revisited".
Some people just don't seem to want to give Charles and Camilla a break, do they?
Posted by: Doug McKay at April 10, 2005 04:59 AMThey get no privacy and no breaks - and the British press is worse than ours, I think!
Posted by: Barb at April 12, 2005 05:45 PM
