Posted on 05/18/2018 1:12:00 PM PDT by ethom
Meghan Markle will make a striking feminist statement in her wedding to Prince Harry on Saturday, choosing not to be chaperoned for much of the procession down the aisle of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, CNN has learned.
In an unprecedented step for a royal bride in the UK, Markle will walk unescorted down the aisle of the chapel nave, after being met at the West Door by a member of the clergy. She will be accompanied in this first part of the wedding procession only by her bridesmaids and page boys, with the senior church figure walking ahead.
Prince Charles will join her when she reaches the Quire, where the main royal guests will be seated. The Prince -- Harry's father -- will walk Markle down the Quire aisle to the foot of the altar.
But Charles will not give her away to her husband-to-be in the traditional sense; instead, he will stand back as Markle approaches Prince Harry.
CNN understands that Markle came up with the plan herself. It was always the intention that her father Thomas would meet her at the Quire and she would walk the first part alone. Ill health has since prevented him from coming. Both Charles and Harry are delighted with the plan, CNN understands.
No other royal bride in the UK has walked unescorted down the aisle at their wedding ceremony. Markle's decision indicates that she wishes to assert herself as a strong, independent woman who is prepared to challenge royal norms.
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Quad era demonstratum.
I attended a wedding where the bride’s father was hospitalized the night before. When she walked in alone the groom left the alter and escorted her down the aisle.
Harry must be chuckling to himself, remember this was the boy who told Princess Diana directly at a young schooboy age in Eton, ‘I can do anything I want, I am the spare’
Marriage won’t last 5 years..........guarantee it.........
Correct, The Queen deserves our utmost respect for her actions during WWII. Her biographies give reason to praise her and her efforts.
None of us outside her family have a clue as to what she had been asked to sacrifice or how often her desire to be a ‘normal’ family was overturned due to the fact she was “A Royal” Unable to raise Your family as You deem fitting is a concept most Americans have never had to endure. We pray that we’ll never be told how this should be done - but we are gradually loosing that freedom.
Prayers for The Queen and prayers for America. May neither of us ever lose their way.
Amen.
.......”Markle came up with the plan herself”. She will walk herself down the aisle.....
Why does it not surprise she has designed this about herself. All eyes on the Bride...period.
She fails to understand the significance of a wedding....but then it’s her second aisle run.
Meghan has been waiting to play this role all of her life. She gets points for hugging the palace guards so far... :) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/world/europe/meghan-markle-monarchy-uk.html
Third time’s a charm.
....her Mother is there in Britain so she's available..
So is she gonna be the prince and her husband a princess?
I’d be the last person to sit in moral judgement on the woman. Just making a joke because I know she had been married and in relationships before. I wish them both the best.
Meghan Duchess of Sussex, Queen gives her 20,000 acres and a ‘tiny’ castle
Well if this is a ‘role’ to her it’s not going to last.
In England. bridesmaids are children.
ah, thanks!
I think the Father has some issues that may be his, hers or both.
Don’t be so sure. As long as they don’t have a “BB” Brown rather than a “Bb” Brown, and the other parent has “bb” Blue, there’s a 50% chance their eyes will be blue. My parents were both “Bb” Browns and I came out a “bb” Blue, which is a 25% or less chance.
I read last night that William and Kate’s Charlotte will be an attendant.
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