William and Kate have set the standard for all their Descendants to the throne.
As the offspring of a proud British Woman, I am proud today for the UK, they have many problems that need to be solved (as does America) but that does not me it is not worth saving
I am not an Anglophile, because I don’t think English is a prerequisite for Western civilization, but what they did, particularly by summoning up earlier Christian examples (for example, St Catherine of Siena), was to remind us all that Western Culture is something built on huge, deep sources.
Christianity originated in the Middle East and passed through Rome; many Jews were already Hellenicized (Greek influenced), and the Greek contribution to Christian thought was very strong. Catholic tradition holds that the various Apostles went out to different places (St. James the Greater to Spain, St Thomas to India, etc.). It is known that the only one who died a natural death, that is, not as a martyr, was St John the Evangelist.
Did you notice the Indians at this event? Kate invited the Indians who ran her local grocery to this. I loved them; they were smart and tasteful and on the same wavelength.
Judeo-Christian-Greco-Roman culture may be a mouthful, but that’s what we’re seeing whenever there is a purely traditional event in any country, be it Britain, Spain, or - well, I was going to say the US, but I don’t think we do those here anymore.