In love and in awe.He with her. She with him.And some 2 billion of the TV-invited who watched the royal wedding around the world Saturday morning.“You look amazing,” Prince Harry told Meghan Markle as she arrived at the quire of St. George’s Chapel, after walking alone — 110 steps down the aisle —taking the arm of Prince Charles for the final 37 paces, the Prince of Wales standing in for the bride’s father who was too ill to attend.Harry, to his dad, as the groom took delivery of the bride: “Thanks Pa.” Or so claimed the professional lip readers.They could scarcely take their adoring eyes off each other, Harry and Meghan, repeatedly exchanging grins, touching each other throughout, hands entwined. Henceforth known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, an extinct title resurrected and invested by the Queen upon her grandson as part of this auspicious day.The last royal nuptials for a long time, until the next generation begins pairing off in betrothals.What a wedding it was, a fusion of pomp and ceremony, heritage and contemporary, convention and wildly divergent cultures: He the sixth in line to the throne, she a biracial actress from California. Zowie together from the first time they met on a blind date when, as Harry has described it, “the stars aligned.”Never before had there been a ceremony quite like this one, blending the essence of him and her.Certainly never before had a royal wedding audience absorbed an address the likes of which was offered by Most Rev. Michael Curry, the Afro-American leader of the Episcopal Church in the U.S., a passionate and entertained sermon that began and ended by quoting Martin Luther King, referenced slavery of antebellum American, and was infused throughout with the redeeming power of love.“We must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love. And when we do that, we will make of this old world a new world. There is power in love. Don’t ever un ...
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