Posted on 05/19/2018 6:22:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In one of the more beautiful moments of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal wedding, guests were treated to a performance of "Stand By Me" by Karen Gibson and the Kingdom Choir.
The song was performed following Bishop Michael Bruce Curry's address at St. George's Chapel in Windsor. Watch and cry and sing along and watch and cry again:
CBS This Morning ✔ @CBSThisMorning WATCH: "Stand By Me" performed by Karen Gibson and the Kingdom Choir. #StandByMe ✨#RoyalWedding #RoyalThisMorning #HarryandMeghan http://CBSNews.com/Royals
7:35 AM - May 19, 2018
While everyone has 100% danced to the song at every wedding reception they've ever been to since it was released in 1961, TIME magazine points out that Meghan and Harry's decision for the choir to sing the song at their wedding marks a symbolic turning point for the monarchy.
During the civil rights movement in America, "Stand By Me" rose to popularity during as a "rallying cry for solidarity amongst people of color"
The marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, whose mother Doria Ragland is black, is already a significant moment for the monarchy. As British writer Lola Adesioye asks to TIME:
"How did this girl—who is not only of color, but didn’t go to the same schools or universities as the royals, who wasn’t even raised in the U.K., and so has all these points of difference and otherness—get to this place? It says a lot about diversification.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmopolitan.com ...
Thank you for that information.
You are more optimistic than I am; I've been saying two years, tops.
Just think about it, Diana and Sarah Ferguson were born and raised in this system. They couldn't take it --- some bi-racial American actress is going to do better?
I didn’t watch it. I can’t go to any website, turn on any radio station, without breathless highlights being passed along. I’m sitting in an auto shop while my car is being worked on and I’m being bombarded by “royal wedding” news.
“They couldn’t take it -— some bi-racial American actress is going to do better? “
Maybe. After all, she has spent her life dealing with a highly dysfunctional family. OTOH, her coping mechanism seems to be running away.
Compelling evidence. Yet, for me, the bottom line on the Royals is that the lot of them were once upstaged by Pippa Middleton’s rear end.
What a truly snarky thing to say.
I watched the wedding and it was beautiful.
Try to have a nice day.
I had to stop and ask myself why I was not always a cello fan. I checked YouTube and he is stunning ... and, yes, only 19!
That song would have been more appropriate for the reception. In a church wedding, the couple should inveigh God to stand by them and be their shelter when they are afraid.
Somebody wise once said, “True love is not gazing into each other’s eyes; but looking out together in the same direction.”
The dumbing down of the Royals. Sad
Harry is the biological son of Charles. In all the past twenty years that this ugly rumor about his parentage has been floating around, and given that Harry was at one time third in line to the throne, do you think for one second that the royals haven’t had his DNA tested? Don’t smear the man for what his foolish parents did on the side.
Looking into her eyes. I would.t trust her as far as I could throw her. Harry really messed up.
I've been afraid to say that. Yes, he does and one day he's going to wake up and realize his mistake. She could be black, white, green or purple but he's got it bad. Unfortunately, he'll wake up too late. What we witnessed this morning was Liz officially announcing the end of the British monarchy. She's old and tired of trying to find a single brain cell within any of the off spring. This is it. The end. Finished. Stick a fork in it. It's done.
They should package up all that horse manure the coach drove through and sell it as souvenirs.
He’d have fit right in at a hoe down with those socks and messed up tie.
Of course, he was chosen not for his musical abilities but that he was black. Just like the black choir, the black revival preacher and the other black guy who thankfully knew enough etiquette to stick with the Lord’s Prayer.
This whole week has been nothing but black this and black that. Just like Obama, she’s more white than black but they both obviously hate their white sides and the msm is playing it up.
Er... that is an instrument called "Cello"...
Not to mention "base" is actually "bass", unless he meant a "reprobate" fiddle?
The choir is built into most medieval English church buildings in a similar position—between the altar and the pews. The Queen had nothing to do with its placement.
The choir seating (called the "quire" in traditional English) is represented on the floor plan below by those horizontal gray areas in the center:
That's a cello. The bass fiddle is almost twice as big and is usually played standing up. He played amazingly, didn't he?!
In the UK and much of Europe, the monarchy performs a ceremonial role and to a certain extent, a diplomatic role. Because their cultures and traditions are so much older than ours, they also perform a curatorial role as regards history and tradition, and a spiritual role as figurehead governors of the Church (this reign of QE2 has blown that pretty badly, and I fear for what Charles will do). They do ceremonial things that in the U.S. are performed by members of the administration or First Family, by the State Department and by heads of museums and cultural groups, but in differing proportions. Their mandate to remain apolitical is arguably a source of cultural stability.
Naturally, as an institution, the monarchy is under attack there just as any established tradition is under attack here by the globalists/islamists.
I love the Carpenters. That is a great wedding song.
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