Last year I was at the barber shop, and the guy in the next chair was talking about having just gotten back from England, where his nephew married a relatively minor relative of the royal family.
IIRC he said the wedding was held at Winchester Cathedral, and at one point traffic was halted by police to allow the bridal party and guests by. At the reception I believe he met one of the princes, tho I don’t recall which one. Supposedly the guy was in England as a student, and simply sat next to this woman in the theater.
Any guesses what member of the royal family this might be? Or was this guy just blowing smoke?
If you broaden the defination of minor member of the royal family to include anyone in line for the throne then you’d have over 3,000 potential candidates.
While not the one referred to by the OP, this article from 2004 shows that there are plenty of ‘minor’ members of the royal family whose weddings could well fit the bill. In this case it was the wedding of Lady Davina Windsor, daughter of the Duke of Gloucester (the Queen’s first cousin). It got reported in Australia mainly, I suspect, because of the groom’s New Zealand connection. The wedding in the OP was probably something similar to this one.
I was taking the note that the person met ‘one of the princes’ to mean William or Harry. That may have been the wrong interpretation, but if they attended a wedding it might have been in the Circular.
I asked myself that question as well when reading the last paragraph of the OP. What I figured out was that the nephew sat next to the woman (who happens to be a minor member of the Royal Family) in the theater, married her, and the man in the barber shop attended the wedding, so he could tell stories about it in the barber shop.
I guess Westminster Cathedral is very unlikely - that’s the Catholic cathedral in London, and I don’t think there are even distant relatives of the Royal Family who are Catholics.
No. Canterbury is the see of the Primate of All England within the Church of England, and Westminster Cathedral – a quite different church from Westminster Abbey – is a Catholic cathedral.
A lot of people confuse Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral. Of course, the terminology Westminster ‘Abbey’ is itself pretty misleading, since it hasn’t been an abbey for over four hundred years. Its real name is the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter. Whereas Westminster Cathedral is actually a Catholic cathedral.
