Sunday, April 24, 2011

'The stuff of fairytales': royal wedding celebrations 30 years ago

Robert Runcie made a prescient analogy at St Paul s Cathedral as thousands held street parties on a hot July day

When Robert Runcie, the archbishop of Canterbury presiding over the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul s Cathedral 30 years ago, spoke gushingly of fairytales, no one seemed to think the analogy was somewhat overblown.

Perhaps it was his genial and patrician manner that day, 29 July 1981. Or perhaps he knew something the rest of us didn t and wanted to

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