Posted on 10/12/2018 3:55:27 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
In addition to serving as her sister’s maid of honor on her wedding day, Princess Beatrice will also give a special reading during Princess Eugenie‘s royal wedding to Jack Brooksbank on Friday
After Jack’s cousin, Charles Brooksbank, finishes his reading — taken from St. Paul’s Letter to the Colossians — Beatrice will stand before the gathered wedding guests at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle to read a passage from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced–or seemed to face–the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
“Precisely at that point it vanished — and I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd. Some time before he introduced himself I’d got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.”
The quotation actually mirrors the royal’s own sentiments about her future husband. Just as Gatsby has the ability to make people feel important, Eugenie says Jack embodies that same quality.
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
nice rendition of the Ave...
benedicta tu in mulieribus...et benedictus fructus ventris tui...lovely phrasing, if you believe in such...
Not a lot of intelligence at work here—
from that photo it looks like a big sheet. I don’t understand what these designers actually do for the big bucks they get paid?
While I am not a fan of the Royal bullshit she looks lovely and better than the trash that married Harry.
Jay Gatsby was in love. In the movies The DiCaprio flick was awful. Too much rap music. Affirmative action encroaching into the classics. The Redford one was better even if DeCaprio is a much better actor.
I thought Fergie looked disheveled, not Eugenie. Eugenie looked tidy; the dress just wasn’t the sort of thing I particularly like. I didn’t like Meghan’s dress, either.
?? Did these idiots actually read the book through to the end???
Gatsby turns out to be a criminal living a false life, a liar, cheat, and scumbag with a nice smile. So is that how she views her new husband??
It’s a SERVICE, not a Mass!!
I have a married Lutheran Priest at our Parish that turned Catholic!
Thank-you!
I agree - DiCaprio was a better Gatsby, but the Redford movie was a better production. I think the young Sam Waterston as Nick Carraway was one of the most perfect casting choices in Hollywood history. He should have been a runaway for best supporting actor that year, but lost to Fred Astaire.
Princess Eugenie’s choice to forgo a veil was strategic, I think. As one of the rare occasions she gets to wear a *tiara* - making the crown the central focus without being covered by a veil afforded her the opportunity to own her title and status.
The choice to have a public wedding was definitely making a statement. She does not merely want to blend into the background of the Royal Family.
Jay Gatsby was a bootlegger, and Jack Brooksbank is some kind of wine merchant or liquor salesman. A strange reading for any wedding, much less for one involving the British royal family.
Eugenie looked lovely, and credit to her mother for not making endless strange faces and gestures as she usually does in public. All the children in the wedding party were very cute too.
Good point about the tiara, which was very pretty.
If you want to call it a SERVICE feel free.
Just know that the Anglicans call it a MASS.
And by the way congratulations to your Lutheran friend. Is he to be ordained?
Then there is the Maureen O’Hara exception to any rule made by men...
Stunning indeed. I loved that there was color! Emerald!
I think she chose well for not wearing a veil. The day was really windy and the veil would have been flying everywhere. I felt sorry for poor Prince Edward’s daughter Louise when the back of her dress blew straight up.
So true. Women like Maureen are one-in-a-century.
Yes, Lady Louise’s dress was “a little previous,” as my grandmother would have said.
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