royal wedding.ppt

The wedding speaks volumes about our fascination with royalty The monarchy sidesteps the awkwardness of patriotism and allows us to feel a rare British pride Jonathan Freedland，guardian, Saturday 30 April 2011 06.29 What memory will live on? For those who lined the Mall, painting their faces red, white and blue, or who just stayed home watching on television — what will they remember? The kiss on the balcony will be the image replayed in perpetuity, just as it was when Williams mother and father married 30 years ago — the difference being that this time they looked like a couple genuinely in love. Others will talk about the pageantry, a show no one lays on quite like the British. Its a fair bet that almost no one will remember the words. Even the eyes of the wedding couple wandered during the spoken bits. an annuity that has no end，永久 选美 Yet when the Dean of Westminster invoked a mystical union, he surely got close to the essence both of the royal wedding and of something much larger. The literal reference was to the bond between Christ and the church, but he could just as easily have been describing the mystical union that exists, and was reinforced in spectacular style, between Britain and the royal family. ? For what we witnessed was the mysterious alchemy that somehow converts love of country into affection for the House of Windsor. The emblem of it was the banner waved by many in the crowds, the same one that has been on display in shop windows throughout the land: a union flag, with a portrait of William and Kate at its centre. the pursuit or experience of direct communion between a believer and an ultimate reality, divinity, spiritual truth 点金术 An emblem is a pictorial image, abstract or representational, that epitomizes a concept The scale of the crowds, like the fervour of the broadcasters, was a reminder of just how rare such displays are in Britain. We have no national day, no Fourth of July. World Cup victories are rarer than coronations and, b