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Reflections on
the marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla: Pat Harris, 12.04.05
It is now three days
after the marriage of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles, now the
Duchess of Cornwall, and things didn’t quite work out as the couple had
planned.
In my piece in February,
the date had been announced as the 8th April and that was the
day of a solar eclipse. They
would have been marrying around mid-day so they were to be married when
the eclipse about to happen and I thought that this would help to make the
marriage a quiet affair. Well,
if it had taken place on the 8th, it would have been a very
quiet affair, indeed, as everyone would have been at the Pope’s funeral!
It is much better, as Jonathan Cainer says, that the couple married
after the eclipse, when it was, in fact, “separating”, than the day on
which it was about to happen. The
Pope’s funeral, however, was an appropriate event for such a stellar
drama. The life a great figure
had come to an end and an eclipse that is about to happen is very much
about endings and drawing things to a close.
An eclipse that has just happened, when the Moon is moving away
from the Sun and so is increasing in light, as it was on the 9th
April, is about new beginnings – and the marriage of Prince Charles and
Camilla is really all about that.
Even so, it was a low-key
event although the blessing after the ceremony was very like a wedding but
without the panoply. Camilla
was dressed perfectly for both the registry office and the blessing and it
was interesting to see that she had favoured the tailored look but had
managed to combine soft flowing lines in the outfit worn for the blessing.
I think the cream shades chosen for the marriage were very
flattering and the shades for the outfit worn for the blessing reflected
those advised in Camilla’s astro fashion profile although I feel, also,
that a soft satin pink sheen for the blessing would have been quite
beautiful (but perhaps not in keeping with the theme of quiet
understatement that was the signature of the event).
Her headgear was very
interesting. She has the sign
of Leo rising and so I thought would need some sort of crown.
She wore a traditional hat for the marriage but she did have a
tiara of sorts for the blessing. She
wore an ostrich feather style head decoration, which had no dome and so
was more like a crown than a hat. I
wondered if the feathers were an oblique reference to the Prince of Wales
feathers………
I have taken the chart
for the time of the marriage, itself, from information provided by the
Press Association Newsroom. They
had representatives waiting for the couple to emerge after the marriage
ceremony in Windsor and the couple, in fact, appeared at about 12 52 p.m.
This means that it is likely that they were married around 12 45
p.m.
No official time for the
marriage has been provided so this is the closest I am able to get with an
estimate for the time. I wish happiness to them both in a life that is
calm and fulfilling.
