As a complete aside, it may be heartless of me, but there is something strangely comic about the title of this entry on the blog linked above:
Prince Charles will escort the bride down the aisle. I suppose it would be cheeky to have Harry’s biological father do the honors, but why not Diana’s brother?
Why would she ask Diana’s brother? Has she ever even met him?
It wouldn’t be the groom’s father. The way it is going to be now, Charles is in effect giving away both members of the bridal party. Since nobody from Meghan’s family will be there, why not represent both halves of Harry’s family?
They’re trying to cite the rumor that Charles was cuckolded by ginger-haired James Hewitt so you’ll see how clever they are to remember ugliness from the 80s that’s been debunked.
Meghan’s mother will be there, and is very involved in the celebrations. She is spending the night before the wedding in London with Meghan. Apparently the possibility of her walking Meghan down the aisle was considered, but she didn’t feel comfortable stepping into such a public role at short notice.
The symbolism here is a little odd; Prince Charles is giving Meghan away to his own family. If she absolutely needs a man to escort her to the altar why not just have Prince Harry do it? At least then they’re on the same level and the bride isn’t symbolically being passed from one man to another.
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I think nowadays when the bride’s father walks her down the aisle, it’s not so much that he’s giving her away, but instead that he’s just escorting her.
Agreed. It’s kind of like when there’s a mjor horse race. Those high strung thoroughbreds have another calmer and steadier horse and rider accompany them onto the track and up to the starting gate.
When I was a bride I was sure glad to have my dad’s arm to hang onto.
does anyone plan to stay up and watch everything live? I suspect I won’t: PBS is re-running the whole thing starting at 3 PM and I will probably watch that.
unless I happen to wake up at 1 AM. :rolleyes:
do we start a new thread? this one is kind of boring - nobody has even* started* talking about hats yet.
HATS! 
I don’t think he’s actually going to stand next to her and give her away, but retire to his seat as soon as she gets to the end. Which I think is what her father was going to do as well (he was also going to meet her halfway, as the Prince of Wales will be doing). They’re using the more modern “common worship” service which doesn’t have the “Who giveth this woman to be married to this man?” from the older service usually used at royal weddings.
The aren’t called hats! They are fascinators.
The palace released the order of service. Among other things it mentions the religious leaders who will be involved in the whole thing. Most, as you’d expect, are Anglican or Episcopal. But it also includes the “Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London”. Why is that?
I don’t really like the weird ones - I am not fascinated - but I like the good looking ones. 
As I unwittingly awaken before the sun, I AM likely to tune in at an ungodly hour! It will make a lovely change to the empty and silent world that usually greets me, I’m sure. The whole world will feel less asleep for once!
Of course, I can’t say how long I’m willing to stick with it. Def through breakfast, maybe have my tea in a proper pot on a tray just because!
But once the sun comes up, all bets are off and odds are good I’ll just wander off to other pursuits.
(There is a chance of a a storm, which, should it arrive could keep me indoors long enough to see it through, but a storm of sufficient duration seems unlikely to me!)
I see Meghan’s half-sister has tried to cashed in on this by writing a family secrets book and working on a movie deal for that book. She wondered why she didn’t get an invite to the wedding.
It’s this guy, but I’m not sure why he’d be part of the service.
If Meghan really wanted to I bet she could’ve gotten her sister sent to Guantánamo Bay in exchange for giving President Trump a last minute invite.
A completely gorgeous day in Windsor. Can’t wait for tiny highnesses George and Charlotte. They’ll steal the whole show.
Dude seems to get on okay with Harry’s dad, so maybe they invited him because they just like him personally?