Monday, April 11, 2005

[News] Charles and Camilla's big day

BBC, Charles and Camilla's wedding day, Saturday, 9 April, 2005, 16:23 GMT:
The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles have finally become husband and wife - more than 30 years after their romance first began.

More than 20,000 people cheered as they arrived at Windsor's Guildhall for their small private civil wedding... more ...

Guardian, Older folks wed with little ceremony and some pomp, Monday April 11, 2005:
"It was," Mrs Parker Bowles is reputed to have said, "just two old folks getting married." As such, the people in Windsor on Saturday were taking the wedding of the year in their stride...

...Peter Tatchell, the gay rights campaigner, whose demonstrations are becoming almost as traditional as the changing of the guard, found himself surrounded by policemen in fluorescent yellow jackets when he tried to produce a poster declaring "Charles can marry twice; gays can't marry once", and they ruthlessly tore down a banner unfurled by an elderly woman which proclaimed: "Illegal, Immoral, Shameful. Duty Before Pleasure. Not fit to be King"... more ...


The family photo from BBC:
(BBC)
The silverfoxes in the photo are Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Major Bruce Shand (Camilla's dad) (L-R)

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1 comment:

Aritul said...

They all look quite handsome, don't they.