Royal Wedding

Sat., June 19, 1999

The royal cake is frosted, Windsor Castle is bristling with TV cameras and the new poet laureate has composed his first ode, for today’s wedding of Queen Elizabeth II’s youngest child, Prince Edward, 35, and Sophie Rhys-Jones, 34. Guests from the royal houses of Europe made their way to Windsor, not as visitors of state but as cousins. The ceremony at St. George’s Chapel in the castle precincts (to be televised live worldwide at 9 a.m. PDT) will be a very different occasion from the huge state weddings of Prince Charles, Princess Anne and Prince Andrew, whose marriages ended so dramatically and so publicly. In his final hours as a bachelor, Edward spoke of the qualities that make this relationship work and added a romantic - and rather un-royal - declaration of love. “We manage to have a good laugh about things most of the time, and we happen to love each other, which is the most important thing of all,” he told ITN.

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