I wondered if Will was watching his watch and hoping he could get out of there before the FA Cup final started.
The Cup Final was in the late afternoon. Time enough to get the reception over, and to fill the gap before the evening party.
As Shakespeare said, “Nice customs curtsy to great kings.”
But of course. The people who truly are at the top don’t have to prove it.
Royals start fashions and trends rather than follow them. Queen Victoria wore white to her wedding, against the custom of the day, and here we are more than 175 years later and brides are still wearing white to their weddings.
And this paragraph, right here, tells every woman why they should wear pure white to every 2nd-time-around wedding forever more.
Well, only if they want to.
I do hope all that was taken in the way it was intended, which was somewhat humorous & light-hearted and merely my opinion and the way I personally would behave based on decades of having it ground into me. 
As I was typing that I was hearing all those little blue-haired, mink stole & diamond brooch wearing voices in my head, bless all their hearts! The Old Guard Junior League Garden Club Ladies might have held mighty social sway, but I get they were all just big fish in little ponds. And most of them were probably frustrated feminists just busting to get out, but they had to play the hands they were dealt.
There’s nothing wrong with bucking convention and social rules, and yeah, sometimes it needs to happen. But you can still remain tasteful, which is itself so very highly subjective.
I think Harry and Meghan pulled that off nicely, and I did say her white-white dress (which is my comment that started this whole tangent) was just a small quibble on my part. Which I am allowed to have. Otherwise I thought it was lovely.
Thankfully, no one here is speculating on whether the bride was “entitled” to wear a white wedding dress because that would really be tasteless.
Somewhere Edward VIII is asking “How come HE gets to marry a divorced American?”
I was thinking the same thing, and wondering if QEII had thought, “Well, at least she’s not Wallis Simpson.” Whose status as divorced American had nothing to do with the fact that she really was a horrible person.
Because Harry is not the heir to the crown. And Meghan is much nicer than Wallis.
And the government and family don’t need a pretext to keep a Nazi sympathizer from becoming King. Yes, I know; that was a commentary on evolving mores.
And not a Nazi.
Hilarious ‘outtake’ from the wedding
I was a little surprised anybody from the Episcopal Church USA was invited, seeing as how it is not on “full speaking terms” with the Anglican Communion because the USA church sanctions same-sex marraiges.
Did the fact that Major is a Knight of the Garter, and Windsor Chapel is the “home chapel” of that order, have anything to do with it? He certainly got a “better” seat because of it.
I am under the impression that giving titles to the men on their wedding days has more to do with the wives than anything else. Technically, the wife of a Prince is never to be called Princess followed by her own first name (case in point: Prince Michael of Kent’s wife is “Princess Michael” - no, Michael is not her first name). Of course, that didn’t stop everybody and their mother from saying “Princess Diana.” I have a feeling that the Queen made Andrew Duke of York when he got married so nobody would say “Princess Sarah,” and the others received their titles for similar reasons.
I was a little surprised she was standing up for it. I remember once - I think it was a wedding - when she and her mother remained seated during the anthem.
One thing I noticed about the fashion: with very few exceptions - most notably, in my opinion, Oprah Winfrey - the women wore hats that weren’t “centered” at the tops of their heads, but slightly off to one side (or, in some cases, slightly to the front or back), as if they were berets.
I just wonder how much coverage Princess Eugenie’s wedding in October will get, seeing as how she’s neither a child of the monarch nor a child of the heir to the throne.
The Queen wore her hat straight on top of the royal head.
The Queen and Oprah were wearing hats; most of the rest of the guests were wearing fascinators.
Eugenie’s wedding is not expected to be televised.
Hard to say without seeing the full guest list. Guessing, I’d say not, he’s had a long relationship and connection with the Princes, an most of the other Knights of the Garter haven’t. You are probably right about the seating position though - probably not the done thing to position a Knight of the Garter - in that chapel - way at the back in the cheap seats. Mind you, by all accounts John Major isn’t really the “grey man of politics” that he’s often been portrayed as - I suspect he’d have been perfectly happy sitting with the Suits cast.
Speaking of Oprah. 
She realized Friday morning that the dress she was going to wear would show up white on camera so she had Stella McCartney make her a new one.
That’s exactly what all the news media said at the time. Idea was that you couldn’t really expect a woman in the 1980s to be happy about being called “Princess Andrew”.