INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
US Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle will marry on Saturday, May 19, 2018London: This
is a thing Britain does really well.The monarch virtually invented pomp
You want regal pageantry, gilded spectacle, the royal Ascot Landau carriage pulled by a pair of father-and-son Windsor Grey horses The
Archbishop of Canterbury bedecked in his robes, the Choir of St
George's Chapel belting out the choral anthems to the rafters - plus maybe a little Elton JohnOn Saturday, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
and a supporting cast of thousands are going to roll out red carpets and stage - one performance only, televised live - their big fat royal
wedding.We're being treated to the full-on fairy tale, complete with pint-size princes and princesses as page boys and bridesmaids.Since
it's 2018, Windsor Castle will be festooned with "locally sourced foliage," including "pollinator-friendly plants" from the Royal Parks
The wedding cake at the first of two receptions will be a tower of lemon elderberry covered in buttercream.Markle will be driven from luxe
Cliveden House manor to the medieval masterwork of St
George's Chapel, within the walls of Windsor Castle, where she will be warmly welcomed by a polite backdrop of 1,200 invited do-gooders from
favored charities - such as Scotty's Little Soldiers and Surfers Against Sewage - not an anti-monarchy banner in sight. A Union Flag
decorated with images of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ahead of Saturday's royal weddingThere will be the Reveal of the Dress
The Kensington Palace PR squad will blast the details
Then mum - Los Angeles yoga instructor Doria Ragland - is likely to walk "Flower" down the aisle, now that we know Markle's father, Thomas
Markle, is sidelined due to heart problems and media-induced stress.Cue the State Trumpeters
The BBC National Orchestra
Karen Gibson and the Kingdom Choir doing American-style gospel
Bishop Michael Curry, the first African American to preside over the Episcopal Church, is to deliver a sermon.Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby will perform the wedding ceremony with the vows from the Book of Common Prayer.Immediately afterward, on the streets of Windsor
town, as many as 100,000 Brits and foreign visitors will be wearing outrageous hats and waving Union Jacks and the Stars and Stripes in a
Pimm's Cup-fueled bacchanal of selfie-taking to celebrate the ultimate in special relationships: Harry's royal marriage to a California
girl.And good for Britain! They've earned it
The barely united kingdom has been sagging under the gray winter weight of petty Tory intrigues, Russian spy poisonings and interminable
Brexit negotiations over cod fisheries and customs unions (whatever they are).For one glorious day, it's not dreary Theresa May
It's May 19, and the British Meteorological Office is forecasting (knock on wood) sunny skies and 70-degree Fahrenheit temperatures.And for
those watching around the world, after a week of split-screen images of deaths in Gaza and the opening of the U.S
Embassy in Jerusalem, of President Donald Trump's rants and Kim Jong Un's backpedaling, here comes the British royal family to hand you the
remote and let you change the channel.Because this is, seriously, designed from top to bottom to be entertainment
Some newspaper reporters and on-air commentators have managed to squeeze higher meanings out of the nuptials - this is the first royal
marriage of a divorc#233;e to take place with the full embrace of the Anglican Church, and biracial, feminist, outspoken Markle has the
potential to break the royal mold
But one thing to keep in mind is that Prince Harry will never, ever, never be king.His father, Prince Charles, and brother, Prince William,
are likely to be - and then his brother's three kids and counting are in line.So it's all chill.And the Brits love Harry
Good on you, mate! Harry is the favorite, the big lovable royal family Labrador
A bit of weed, the Vegas nudes and a Nazi costume All mostly forgotten since he grew up and flew combat missions as a helicopter pilot in
Afghanistan.Harry's the strong but sensitive type, man enough to talk about mental health on television.And Meghan Markle The royal family,
in all its cunning, clinging to the faded role of modern monarch, could not have invented a better first mate in a laboratory below
It is possible this American TV actress might just save this tired brand She's the new thing
The Season 2 surprise.The British tabloids are not quite sure what to make of Markle
She's the whole package - a tested media performer, a proven clothes horse and a thoughtful, eloquent woman who supports the #MeToo moment
Markle arrives ready to stand on her mark
In their first dual appearances - the sort of engagements that constitute the royal family's day job - Meghan has proved herself better at
the game than Harry.Of course, we're all old enough now to know that fairy tales are for children
Harry's mother, Princess Diana, was sucked up into the paparazzi whirlwind - and she died, when Harry was just 12, killed by a bad chauffeur
chased by photographers paid to feed our celebrity obsessions.Dickie Arbiter, the queen's former press secretary, said he thinks Harry and
Meghan together will be able to create a stable life, even in these surreal environs - something Harry never had."Harry has at long last
found someone that he can settle down with, that he can start a family with, that he can create a family that he was lacking as a young
person," Arbiter said, noting that Harry as a boy split his time between his mother's residence at Kensington Palace in London and his
father's Highgrove House in Gloucestershire."I look at it from Harry's choice of a bride, he feels he has met someone who can make him
happy," the retired courtier said.So cheers to that.(This story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is auto-generated
