Sorry guys. Didn’t mean to be so confusing. Wow - in the last week i;ve demonstrated my utter ignorance on the distinction between UK and GB, important churches in Britain, and the line of succession! Guess I’m not exactly an Anglophile!
To clarify, here is the story I heard from a guy in a barber chair near Chicago (the uncle). His nephew (the nephew!) was a college aged guy studying in England. I believe the nephew had attended school in Illinois - perhaps the U of I. While in England, the nephew went to the theater, where he chatted up the girl sitting next to him. The nephew ended up marrying the girl, who turned out to be somehow or another related to the royal house.
When I spoke to the uncle in the barbershop, the uncle said he had just returned from a big wedding in England between the nephew and the girl. As I understood, it was held in a big church with a name that sounded familiar to me. The uncle was impressed over the fact that traffic was stopped to allow the wedding party and guests through - I believe from the wedding to the reception. He said guests drove to one place where they went thru security and were driven to the reception on busses. At the reception, the uncle said he sae/met one of Charles and Di’s kids (I forgot their names when typing the OP).
I just wondered if there was any kind of social calendar that reported such doings - and from what you say, it sounds as tho this guy’s story (or at least parts of it as I remember it) is not supported.
For some reason it just kind of stuck with me in a kind of fairy tale way. Just happen to chat up the person next to you, and end up married into royalty. But I guess I won’t be able to put a clearer image on my daydreaming.
Perhaps he met one of the children from Camilla’s first marriage?
They are Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes. Camilla’s first husband Andrew Parker Bowles is Catholic and the children from that marriage were raised in that faith.
But, to muddy the waters further, both of them married in Anglican ceremonies.
This is the bit where the alarm bells go off. Not because there is anything implausible about either William or Harry attending the wedding reception of a relative and someone from the other side of the family seeing them/speaking to them there. But William or Harry attending a wedding would be a news story. Not necessarily a huge one, but enough for most of the British papers to run a photo or two. Pretty much any appearance by them in public gets some coverage and a wedding is just the sort of fluffy, controllable photo-op that the Palace likes to encourage. Even without pictures, their attendance would be a natural filler for a gossip column. It is therefore striking that no one can find anything that quite matches the uncle’s story.
Thanks. I guess I’ll just have to accept that I will not be able to clarify this in my mind (well, unless I want to press the barber when I get my haircut!) I may well have misunderstood him. Or he may well have been exaggerating. And it’s not really important enough to me to try to nail it down. Just kinda romantic, the idea of casually meeting and marrying royaly. The stuff of fairy tales!
