Perhaps it’s the
pageantry of the occasion, but it does feel like one of those days for looking back as well as forward. In which case, we’ll have a double dose of Royal Wedding-related archive posts today, of
which this is the first. And what a doozy it is, too: The Spectator’s editorial on the wedding of the Queen to Prince Philip in 1947. So many of its observations and exultations might equally apply
today. “The spirit of egalitarianism is in the air,” it notes, “To that even royalty may have in some degree to adapt itself.” The adaptation, you feel, is still being written
by those gathered in Westminster Abbey this morning.
Princess and wife, The Spectator, 21 November 1947
The heiress to the throne is now a wife. For her that means an expansion and completion of life that she will only understand as experience of it grows and deepens year by year.
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