The Queen attends 'society wedding of the year'

The Queen attends 'society wedding of the year'

I suppose there's no need to shed a tear

when The Queen attends the 'Wedding of the Year'

but if truth be told

 "old" is still OLD

even when bedecked in  peach and gold

with  her Duke dressed quite correct

and painfully  managing to stay erect.

The great great grandfather of the bride,

Lord Mountbatten,who  was assassinated by the IRA,

is being remembered thus with pride

on what  might have been his 116th birthday,

but though that bomb blast was a heinous crime

another Assassin takes from all their prime

inexorably, 

even if more gradually:

His name, of course, is TIME. 

HzL

6/26/16

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• Telegraph
 
•  News

The Queen attends 'society wedding of the year' as Prince Charles gives away Lord Mountbatten's great granddaughter 

Prince Charles gives Alexandra Knatchbull away CREDIT: DAVID HARTLEY

•  Harry Yorke 

25 JUNE 2016 • 5:15PM

The Queen and other members of the Royal Family attended the ‘society wedding of the year’ yesterday, where the Prince of Wales gave away heiress Alexandra Knatchbull, the daughter of his close friends Lord and Lady Brabourne.

Wearing a peach floral dress emblazoned with a gold brooch and matching hat, Her Majesty was joined by the Duke of Edinburgh as she entered the ceremony at Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, where Prince Charles, dressed in a grey-three piece suit, accompanied Miss Knatchbull down the aisle to her waiting fiancé, Thomas Hooper.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh CREDIT: DAVID HARTLEY

Also joining the celebration was Princess Anne, who made her way into the service alongside her parents and brother, choosing a lilac outfit similar in style to that donned by her mother the Queen.

Miss Knatchbull, 33, a forensic accountant and theology graduate of Regent’s Park College Oxford, is the great-granddaughter of the late Lord Mountbatten and the goddaughter of the late Dianna, Princess of Wales.

Draped in a white satin wedding dress finished with lace embroidery, Miss Knatchbull chose to be given away on what would have been her great-grandfather’s 116th birthday.

Lord Mountbatten was killed when a bomb planted by the IRA exploded on their leisure boat in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland.