'The shouting and the tumult dies; the captains and the kings depart.”
Yes indeed a memorable occasion, superbly stage managed and presented. It can be truly said that if you viewed it on television you had the best seat in the house.
I wondered, as I watched the happy couple plighting their troth, if Kate could sense the muffled footsteps of The Grey Men (the name coined by that tragic, lonely and ill used lady, Princess Di, when describing some of the nameless 'servants” who undid her) or the soft click of the latch, as the door to the normal world quietly closed behind her and the gilded portal of a world awash with many who are venerated, loved and respected because of who, and not what, they are, beckoned. There is little doubt that Kate will continue to try to be herself and one can only wish her and her's all the best.
Frank Smead, Mount Maunganui.